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Originally Posted by Icchan
Thanks WT, your reply lead me to a few things and I realized that this theme uses "mcp_vol_label.png" as the upper part of that background, so unless I resize that as well when I resize VU-meter, there's going to be a glitch as such shown in the picture between them..
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That would indeed make them line up, which would disguise the problem by making the vol label also 'wrong' ...but if the borders being 1px unbalanced doesn't bother you then yes, that'll get it done.
If you're going to get further into theming (please do!) then I urge you to look into the pink/yellow lines because they are at the heart of the dirty tricks themers use to achieve many common outcomes. In this case, you could have changed the single leftmost yellow pixel on the bottom row into a pink pixel, and it would have solved your problem. Worth investigating!
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Originally Posted by Icchan
I just wished who ever wrote that rtconfig.txt on this theme had realized that they could use variables and math operators to tie graphical elements together
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I wrote that bit of that rtconfig.txt, I am aware of such things
The code and the image stretching setup have to work together, its a bit more complicated than you suggest, which brings me to my #1 sugestion for anyone getting in to theming: Don't start by modding an existing theme, its harder than making one from scratch, even if its just a bit crap and you never make it public and just use it as a learning platform. There are a myriad of different ways of achieving certain results in Reaper theming, and modding requires you to know all of them if you are going to understand which one a particular themer chose to use on a particular theme, which presents a devastatingly steep initial learning curve.
Reaper theming is not really designed to do a lot of the fairly hacky things thermers do regularly. Its better to learn how its
supposed to be used first, before then looking at all the fun and creative ways we abuse it!