Theme/Walter - Alpha value ignored on windows?

lerian · 04-28-2021, 07:31 AM

While trying to hack-disable the display of the track number when track is not selected in a v6 theme, i realized that the windows just ignores the alpha value. In osx everything works as expected.

The line trying to mod is:

Code:

set tcp.trackidx.color	?track_selected [50 50 50] [255 255 255 1]

Tried in 6.25 and 6.28 with the same results.

White Tie · 04-28-2021, 07:52 AM

IIRC, sort of, its been a very long time but here is the vague reason that was somewhere in the back of my brain: the alpha is used in composition with the text field's code background colour (that you probably don't use), and that is a factor of how windows does text fields.

Are you doing a default v6 mod? If so there are some other ways you could do it.

White Tie · 04-28-2021, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by White Tie

IIRC, sort of, its been a very long time but here is the vague reason that was somewhere in the back of my brain: the alpha is used in composition with the text field's code background colour (that you probably don't use), and that is a factor of how windows does text fields.

Just checked and no, this is nonsense.

lerian · 04-28-2021, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by White Tie

Just checked and no, this is nonsense.

So it's a bug then? Can you replicate it on your system?

White Tie · 04-29-2021, 12:54 AM

Yes its a bug, I've moved this back to the bug reports forum. Though the 'why' that I remembered was nonsense, I can confirm that text transparency doesn't work on windows and never has.

lerian · 04-29-2021, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by White Tie

Yes its a bug, I've moved this back to the bug reports forum. Though the 'why' that I remembered was nonsense, I can confirm that text transparency doesn't work on windows and never has.

Any idea how to hide track number on unselected tracks? Thanks.

White Tie · 04-29-2021, 06:09 AM

Yes, several ideas. Answered here because that bit is theme related.

LarrySeyer · 04-29-2021, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by White Tie

Yes its a bug, I've moved this back to the bug reports forum. Though the 'why' that I remembered was nonsense, I can confirm that text transparency doesn't work on windows and never has.

Could this be the reason my nice gradient piano keys look great on a mac but totally flat on a PC?

lerian · 04-30-2021, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by LarrySeyer

Could this be the reason my nice gradient piano keys look great on a mac but totally flat on a PC?

I don't think so, this bug applies to text transparency in windows version, while image transparency is embedded in the png file itself. Could be different monitor gamma/contrast to blame. Have you tried making a screenshot on each OS and looking at them both on the same monitor?