Old 07-03-2007, 06:38 PM   #1
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Here you go, guys!
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http://www.reaper.fm/sdk/advtheme/

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Old 07-03-2007, 06:48 PM   #2
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Yo! Let's google these tigerskin.png's!

And White Tie, are you there?

Great stuff, Justin.
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Old 07-03-2007, 07:06 PM   #3
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Cool!! Now where is that White Tie "teaser"
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Old 07-03-2007, 07:29 PM   #4
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i can see this getting out of hand... haha
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i can see this getting out of hand... haha
Out of hand? What do you mean?




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How very sawstudio of you. Apologies to all loyal iqs fans here, woodgrain daws will forever be linked to saw in my mind.
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Old 07-03-2007, 10:23 PM   #7
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tcp_showborders 0

doesn't seem to work correctly. you still get the top-border of the track-label-field shown!?


FIXED

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Old 07-04-2007, 01:24 AM   #8
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Whohooo!

Thats great! And even if I don't have the time update my stealth theme, I really hope some other will do some great stuff.

AND ESPECIALLY WHITE TIE!

This Art demo of a reaper theme looks SOOOO amazing! I hope I'ts possible now!

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The first White Tie theme out the doors:

http://www.cockos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10718
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WOW! I'm speechless! As Reaper has now a "little bit" eye-candy, for me the only thing thats missing is a real generic-remote-implentation like in Cubase/Nuendo
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Hi Justin!
Congratulations! This seems nice updates to the UI.

Sorry to talk about one of your older softwares... I have to confess that I loved Winamp, but stopped using it when you introduced the full skinnable abilities... it was a CPU muncher! I hope that it doesn't happen the same with reaper.

Will this new capabilities eat lots more CPU/RAM?
I personally think that the UI is already extremly usable+simplistic+nicelooking: http://www.cockos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9422

Thanks for reading

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Old 07-04-2007, 06:15 AM   #12
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**THIS IS NOT A WORKABLE THEME, AND MAY CAUSE BLINDNESS**

Anyone who fancies getting stuck into an advanced theme (for 1.00 scale) might find this useful (attached)

In many locations you can pop an image in and Reaper will gamely stretch it to fit without complaint and it'll look pretty good too! However, get things at the right resolution and you'll see a real payoff in sharpness.

Things gets a little more complicated with some of the advanced functions, but hopefully this will show you what goes where and what kind of dimensions get good results.

Take special note of the faders and their alpha values - they can fill the whole width of an MCP column, so there's bags of room for adding transparent glows or drop shadows, and you simply pop some 1px pink lines on the appropriate edge to tell Reaper which part of the image to overlay. Look at mcp_volthumb.png and you'll see this in action.
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Old 07-04-2007, 12:57 PM   #13
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Old 07-04-2007, 01:00 PM   #14
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hahahahha WT I love the test card skin.. HOT
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hmm actually I should change the zordering of buttons vs faders.. so shadows can go over the buttons... coming in the next build..
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Plus the option to have .png as a format for the faders as well?

The test card skin is a great piece of BAUHAUS design!
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You are aware of mcp_volthumb.png and tcp_volthumb.png Alex? Is that what you're asking for?

Cheers, btw. I'll try mixing some music concrete with it later...
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**THIS IS NOT A WORKABLE THEME, AND MAY CAUSE BLINDNESS**

Anyone who fancies getting stuck into an advanced theme (for 1.00 scale) might find this useful (attached)
hi hi !
Did you listened to Team Doyobi while making it ?
It is both nice lofi8bit and totally unusable

Did you got inspiration from la mire ?

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You are aware of mcp_volthumb.png and tcp_volthumb.png Alex? Is that what you're asking for?
Ah! I see... thanks. And keep them coming, WT! Make REAPER a showcase of your talents...
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Old 07-04-2007, 07:18 PM   #20
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Alex, very nice theme, ReaperStudio Basic or Full?
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Old 07-04-2007, 07:36 PM   #21
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Thank you Justin! Love the new look. It's like looking into HD Reaper (it's always been HD audio)



Here's something I threw together, mostly pngs (not the toolbar).

Faders are a lot friendlier to make.

[IMG]http://img482.**************/img482/7366/screenshota1872zu4.png[/IMG]
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Eli my above 'theme' was only joking, but what you show here is very very pretty! Nice font for the track panels! Should do my homework better; didn't know that that font could be selected now Hope you'll post that theme.
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Old 07-05-2007, 12:09 AM   #23
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from the advanced theming documentation:

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Panel backgrounds (you can use bmp or png, all stretched to fit -- and alpha channel is ignored):
* transport_bg.png: background image for transport
* tcp_bg.png: background image for track panels
* tcp_bgsel.png: background image for selected track panels
* mcp_bg.png: background image for mixer panels
* mcp_bgsel.png: background image for selected mixer panels
* mcp_mainbg.png: background image for master mixer panel
* mcp_mainbgsel.png: background image for selectd master mixer panel
* toolbar_bg.png: background image for toolbar
stretched background graphics look really stupid if you use some kind of textures...please change this, so that they are repeated and not stretched.

what i also don't like is the automatic scaling of the toolbar icons - this should be optional...
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stretched background graphics look really stupid if you use some kind of textures...
ummmmmm... change the size of your source image, maybe, so Reaper doesn't have to stretch it so far?


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repeating small images is needed and better too (saving resources) imo!
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ummmmmm... change the size of your source image, maybe, so Reaper doesn't have to stretch it so far?


tj
reaper always scales the image to fit (regardless of the size), which means it doesn't only stretch the image, but also compresses it if the track height is very small for example. and that does look very stupid if you use some kind of textures and not a plain background.
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Old 07-05-2007, 04:06 PM   #27
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1) Is there a height for the TCP VU meter that does NOT stretch the image at all?

2) for the Background TCP images, when the track height is maximized a bit, chunks start to show through at the edges.

Here's a screenshot illustrating these problems, and yeah, I tried several heights for the VU meters... It seemed it should be 84, White Tie's is 88... but both these heights, and all others +/- 20 pixels seemed to stretch the image.

[img]http://img297.**************/img297/1353/untitled4op2.png[/img]


Of course: Sweet update! Looking forward to being able to change the scroll bars!
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**THIS IS NOT A WORKABLE THEME, AND MAY CAUSE BLINDNESS**

Anyone who fancies getting stuck into an advanced theme (for 1.00 scale) might find this useful (attached)
This kicks many kinds of ass, WT. I have been stealing other people's icons and just creating my own over top of theirs, so I got the UI bug just recently. Now I know exactly where to start with the advanced theming.

Thank you very much.
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Old 07-05-2007, 06:58 PM   #29
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Out of hand? What do you mean?




Oh great, now I'll have to dust and wax my Reaper woodwork! How about one in figured Koa?

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Old 07-08-2007, 04:42 PM   #30
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Updated with screenshots and new 1.874 info!

http://www.reaper.fm/advtheme/

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justin, can you make the fx-browser following/using the correct fader, transport and i/o icons in these advanced themes?
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please sticky this!
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I see another problem... with pop-up menu buttons like IO, Envelope, Record Input, etc...

If you click on one of these, then move your mouse over the window (avoiding the interface below) the "up" state of that button will not be released, and will remain there until you pass over something again, or if you resize or refresh the ui...

no big deal, just a little quirk
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I see another problem... with pop-up menu buttons like IO, Envelope, Record Input, etc...

If you click on one of these, then move your mouse over the window (avoiding the interface below) the "up" state of that button will not be released, and will remain there until you pass over something again, or if you resize or refresh the ui...

no big deal, just a little quirk
hmm I can't duplicate this
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i get this sometimes too (at least in the toolbar). but don't know how to reproduce.

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Justin, your work here is very exciting - opening a new frontier and era for Reaper. White Tie your contribution is amazing!

I was wondering if either of you know of a magic dimension - a pixel height for mcp_volbg.png and length for tcp_volbg.png that will re-size relative to the height and length of the TCP and MCP - what I mean is this... every attempt that I have made at creating a volume bg that has a zero notch re-sizes incorrectly such that the zero notch slides around as the mixer, etc is re-sized.
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I was wondering if either of you know of a magic dimension - a pixel height for mcp_volbg.png and length for tcp_volbg.png that will re-size relative to the height and length of the TCP and MCP
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No! No matter what you try, if you put calibration marks on the volbgs they WILL go wonky!

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Old 07-22-2007, 01:41 PM   #38
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Could we have the various templates all stickied in one spot? Perhaps in the fist post here?

Thanks!
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Feature Request:

tcp_mastervupeakheight


is missing/needed!
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Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Coooooooooooooooool.
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