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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1205313" data-attributes="member: 141969">Recently I have been making a few changes to the skin that I use.&nbsp; I have re-arranged some of the data on the screen, and that works OK.&nbsp; But I cannot get the skin engine to display the colours that I want. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":cry:" title="Crying&nbsp; &nbsp; :cry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cry:" />&nbsp; The skin (&quot;DefaultWide&quot; in MP 1.12) uses picture backgrounds, which I find make the text more difficult to read.&nbsp; So I want to replace those by plain coloured backgrounds.&nbsp; This is what I have done:(1) I replaced the background image &quot;background.png&quot; with &quot;white.png&quot;.&nbsp; I have looked at the latter in &quot;Photoshop&quot;, and it is a tri-colour image with all of the colour planes set to &quot;255&quot;.(2) I commented out various overlays that seemed to produce non-uniform backgrounds (e.g. darker central band, with lighter bands at the top and bottom of the panel).(3) I tried various values for the COLORDIFFUSE attribute.&nbsp; But virtually all values result in a black background. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />&nbsp; These are the values that I tried and the colour of the background that results:[code]#00000000&nbsp; Black#40ffffff&nbsp; Black#50ffffff&nbsp; Black#58ffffff&nbsp; Black#5bffffff&nbsp; Black#5dffffff&nbsp; Black#5fffffff&nbsp; Black#60ffffff&nbsp; Darker grey#61ffffff&nbsp; Black#80ffffff&nbsp; Mid grey#a0ffffff&nbsp; Black#c0ffffff&nbsp; Black#e0ffffff&nbsp; Black#ffffffff&nbsp; White[/code]I also tried some other combinations, using #80 for the alpha channel (which produces mid grey when combined with #ffffff):[code]#ff000000&nbsp; Black#80ff0000&nbsp; Black#8000ff00&nbsp; Black#800000ff&nbsp; Black#80ff00ff&nbsp; Black#8000ffff&nbsp; Black#80ffff00&nbsp; Black[/code]So, how do I get this to work?&nbsp; I want to be able to choose from any of the 2**24 possible colours (256 x 256 x 256).&nbsp; Do I need to use &quot;black.png&quot;, or possibly a second image to act as an overlay?&nbsp; The behaviour that I have found so far is completely puzzling. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />&nbsp; Thanks for any help.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1205313, member: 141969"] Recently I have been making a few changes to the skin that I use. I have re-arranged some of the data on the screen, and that works OK. But I cannot get the skin engine to display the colours that I want. :cry: The skin ("DefaultWide" in MP 1.12) uses picture backgrounds, which I find make the text more difficult to read. So I want to replace those by plain coloured backgrounds. This is what I have done: (1) I replaced the background image "background.png" with "white.png". I have looked at the latter in "Photoshop", and it is a tri-colour image with all of the colour planes set to "255". (2) I commented out various overlays that seemed to produce non-uniform backgrounds (e.g. darker central band, with lighter bands at the top and bottom of the panel). (3) I tried various values for the COLORDIFFUSE attribute. But virtually all values result in a black background. :confused: These are the values that I tried and the colour of the background that results: [code]#00000000 Black #40ffffff Black #50ffffff Black #58ffffff Black #5bffffff Black #5dffffff Black #5fffffff Black #60ffffff Darker grey #61ffffff Black #80ffffff Mid grey #a0ffffff Black #c0ffffff Black #e0ffffff Black #ffffffff White[/code] I also tried some other combinations, using #80 for the alpha channel (which produces mid grey when combined with #ffffff): [code]#ff000000 Black #80ff0000 Black #8000ff00 Black #800000ff Black #80ff00ff Black #8000ffff Black #80ffff00 Black[/code] So, how do I get this to work? I want to be able to choose from any of the 2**24 possible colours (256 x 256 x 256). Do I need to use "black.png", or possibly a second image to act as an overlay? The behaviour that I have found so far is completely puzzling. :confused: Thanks for any help. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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