How to darken background of focused thumb? (1 Viewer)

[offbyone]

Hi skinners!
I am trying to achieve this effect with the Default skin:
(notice how the background of the focused item is less transparent)
I can for the heck not figure out what setting or image is responsible for that. Any help for a poor coder ?

...sample image from streamedMP where t works just the way I want.

 

[ryan20021982]

<unfocusedAlpha>200</unfocusedAlpha>

I know this is used in Monochrome to control the transparency, sorry only skin I have extensively messed with

 

[offbyone]

Thx for the suggestion, I tried that settings. Unfortunately I couldn't get the effect shown above, because unfocusedAlpha only changes the transparency of the NON focused items. The focused item is still fully transparent. I would need the opposite property (which is not available).

 

[offbyone]

I just found how to do it:
You have to set the imageFolderFocus on the thumbnailpanel to some dark image.
BUT: Here's a bug in the skinengine:
If you have zoomXPixels or zoomYPixels higher than 0 (meaning you want the focused item to be enlarged) you won't get the effect, because the imageFolderFocus is then rendered on top of the actual thumb. It's easy to see when using black.png:

 

[Psycho Reptile]

Are you trying to have a transparent background on unfocused items and a "black" background on focused items?

 

[offbyone]

Yes, and I have it working, but as said, it will NOT work if you set the zoom.

 

[Psycho Reptile]

Yep, just tried everything I could think of and you are correct... The imageFolderFocus gfx is drawn on top of "everything" if you have zoom pixels. IMO this is a skin engine bug.
However I don't see the need to zoom the thumb when there is such a big difference between the focus and unfocus thumbs.... just my 2p

 

[offbyone]

I posted this a bug in the bugreports forum. (would be nice if you can confirm it there)
I still need this to work with the zoom, because:
in OnlineVideos sometimes the thumbnailpanel is filled with transprents pngs (site icons) and sometime it's filled with thumbs from videos. On the second case, if you don't zoom the focued item you can't see the selection very good (unless I add a monster-border ) because the thumb now hides the darkening effect.

 

[offbyone]

I now found the fix and posted a patch + updated dll to test it.
Here's a screenshot of it working: