STYLE: Excitonium_DS

[DarkStar]

Here we go. Excitonium_DS is modified from Titanium, any buglets are mine.
-- tinted window borders and captions (title bars),
-- tinted buttons,
-- grey / changeable text.









Here is a link to a .zip file containing the style and a set of colour palettes for it.
http://www.meldaproduction.com/download ... ium_DS.zip

Installation

• (a) in Explorer / Finder, navigate to the folder where the other .mstyle files are; on WIndows 7, here, the folder is: C:\ProgramData\MeldaProduction\MTexturedStyles,
  (b) put the Excitonium_DS.mstyle file in that folder,
  (c) open any MeldaProduction plug-in, click [Settings] then [Style] and select "Excitonium_DS",
  (d) optionally, change the size to X=100%, Y = 90% and disable "Upper-case",
  
  (e) put the Excitonium_DS_presets.mpresets file on your Desktop,
  (f) in the Style Configuration window / Color settings panel, click [Presets] then [Import] then [Desktop] and select Excitonium_DS_presets, click the tick, then [Add], then the [tick] and [Close]

That gives you 4 sets of palettes, getting darker, a 'highlights' set, and the default 'grey' set with white text. The "zz_default" set is just a reminder of which colours are associated with which types of plug-in.

Please note: I run my monitors with contrast and brightness turned down, so you may find the palette colours a bit bright on yours. If so you can click any of the 4 colours (this Style does not use the fifth one) and tone it down as desired. Then Replace it in the Presets Browser.

[Starship Krupa]

Very nice! Thank you so much. It's my new default style.

[ericzang]

Thanks DS, these are very nice! That border helps when windows are layered!

[ericzang]

Would you be ok uploading the .mtexturedstyle file also? I'd like to apply the analyzer color brightness adjustment, as I have done to Titanium:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... e#p6800892

[DarkStar]

^^^^
What did you change in Titanbrite (perhaps post the changes on your other thread). Maybe I can build that in too.

Or, change the Analyzer / Settings / Graphs colours?

[mcbpete]

(f) click [Presets] then [Import] then [Desktop] and select Excitonium_DS_presets, click the tick, then [Add], then the [tick] and [Close]

I seem to be doing this last step wrong. It adds all these oddly named presets and subfolders to whatever plugin I've imported this Excitonium_DS_presets into ... is it meant to do something after that so it actually uses the colours for each type of plugin ?

[ericzang]

Thanks DS, ok I posted my changes in the titanbrite thread.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... e#p6800892

[chaosmeister]

(f) click [Presets] then [Import] then [Desktop] and select Excitonium_DS_presets, click the tick, then [Add], then the [tick] and [Close]

I seem to be doing this last step wrong. It adds all these oddly named presets and subfolders to whatever plugin I've imported this Excitonium_DS_presets into ... is it meant to do something after that so it actually uses the colours for each type of plugin ?

You probably picked the wrong "presets" button when adding the presets. From the main plugin interface, pick "settings", then under "GUI & style" click the Style button, which brings up the Style configuration dialog. Next to "Color settings" is a "Preset" button. That's the one you're looking for: click it pick "add" and choose the preset file from your harddisk.
You probably want to start out by first removing the wrongly installed presets though... When you're on a Mac, they probably are at <harddisk>:Library:Application Support:MeldaProduction. Good luck.

[mcbpete]

Aha, that'll definitely be it - I was applying it to the presets in a particular machine and thinking that somehow it'd magically realize it's a GUI preset rather than a 'normal' preset. I didn't realise there was also GUI presets.

Thanks, will definitely give it a go this evening - Last night I went through the effects I'd [incorrectly] tried to apply this GUI preset to, so they're now poised ready for this fix

Thanks again !

[DarkStar]

What chaosmeister; said I'm slightly surprised that the plug-in accepted the import of style colour palette presets into its main preset area.

[dmbaer]

Just a quick note of thanks, Dark Star. I've been using your preset for several sessions now. It vastly improves upon the "where's the border of this window?" phenomenon to which I've become all too accustomed. Nice work!

[Grizzellda]

DarkStar, this Excitonium style is just lovely...much thanks for your work on it. So now I'm simply wondering why Vojtech didn't make such a cool development to begin with, HA!...

Seriously Vojtech, I would ask you to keep tweaking that style stuff as to help optimize this approach that DarkStar took here.

And I also want to mention that the style editor isn't working on my Windows 7 system. Maybe since the big version 12 upgrade it too needs to be updated?