GUI tweaking question

[PaulSC]

Hello Zebra friends,

I have neither the talent nor the ambition to design a full-blown alternative skin for Zebra, but I'd really like to attempt one small tweak.

Is it possible to make the highlight on the currently selected module in the sound generation rack more conspicuous (e.g. by applying a brightly colored border)? If so, how would I go about this -- is it a matter of editing a graphics resource, a text-based script, ... ?

[lazerkind]

Hi Paul,
It should not be too hard. If I get your request right you only need to change one line in the script of the skin.

Download the skin "The other dark horse" and look in it's scriptfile.
(It has some extra documentation tags in it.)

Open the Script Zebra2.txt it in a good text editor. (notepad just made a mess of it so try notepad++ or so)
on line 62,63 you will see

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// this is for what color is highlighted in the module section
COLOUR name='Rack Highlite' rgba='ff000035'

And you change that to the colour you prefer. Save and load up zebra.

You can also change the color of the selected module in the matrix in a similar way by modifying:

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// selected module
COLOUR name='ModuleSelect' rgba='880000ff'

//L

[bmrzycki]

Open the Script Zebra2.txt it in a good text editor. (notepad just made a mess of it so try notepad++ or so)

This is because Windows and Macs have different concepts of an end of line character. Notepad on windows doesn't have the smarts to understand this but Wordpad does. I usually open most mac/unix text files with wordpad.exe. Just be sure to save them as .txt files and not as .rtf or .doc when you're done.

[PaulSC]

Thanks, will try out these suggestions soon!

[Bobbo]

Hi Paul,
It should not be too hard. If I get your request right you only need to change one line in the script of the skin.

Download the skin "The other dark horse" and look in it's scriptfile.
(It has some extra documentation tags in it.)

Open the Script Zebra2.txt it in a good text editor. (notepad just made a mess of it so try notepad++ or so)
on line 62,63 you will see

Code: Select all

// this is for what color is highlighted in the module section
COLOUR name='Rack Highlite' rgba='ff000035'

And you change that to the colour you prefer. Save and load up zebra.

You can also change the color of the selected module in the matrix in a similar way by modifying:

Code: Select all

// selected module
COLOUR name='ModuleSelect' rgba='880000ff'

//L

How do you find the colors that correspond to the hex(?) code? What color is bright red?

[PaulSC]

http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/Color_Charts

Zebra requires two additional hex digits at the end, representing transparency, with 00 meaning totally transparent (invisible) and ff meaning totally opaque (obscuring anything beneath it). I think.

[tboulette]

http://html-color-codes.com/

You might try Googling this sort of thing.

[Bobbo]

http://html-color-codes.com/

You might try Googling this sort of thing.

Tanks