Is there a need for a skin editor? (2 Viewers)

[NoBugS]

Thanks for the feedbacks. The ColorChooser is an existing Component
So making it less 'advanced' would be quite some work. So maybe for now I would postpone that but keep that in mind.
However I did the 'Align'-Buttons....

Will look like that.



Hope you like it

 

[NoBugS]

Btw: what do you skinners think about the 'Show IDs' feature (selectable if GUIWindow is selected from Component-DropDown)?
Usefull? Or just stupid?
And what do you think about the way you can configure animations?

 

[infinite.loop]

Btw: what do you skinners think about the 'Show IDs' feature (selectable if GUIWindow is selected from Component-DropDown)?
Usefull? Or just stupid?
And what do you think about the way you can configure animations?

I am not as skinner at all, but that even sounds useful to me.

 

[catavolt]

I still don´t see any buttons. Tested it with B3Wide and my own skins.

 

[NoBugS]

Thats true. Reason is the still missing support for Groups in Alpha2. I finished support to display Groups and honor the layout-settings for Alpha3.
Where I still struggle is an idea how to allow editing groups. For ex. it does not make sense to allow the user to freely move a button in a StackLayout.
But it might be nice to allow reordering buttons. So I basically need a new concept what to allow and what not.

So I think what I will do is release Alpha3 very soon so that issue will be gone. I display Groups as if they were a single control thus not allowing to edit their content for now due to missing ideas what to allow and what not (also Z-Order must be restricted...).

BTW anybody that can help me with that dimColor question from my other post in that forum?

 

[arion_p]

So I think what I will do is release Alpha3 very soon so that issue will be gone. I display Groups as if they were a single control thus not allowing to edit their content for now due to missing ideas what to allow and what not (also Z-Order must be restricted...).

You could handle groups as a single control (in the sense that you cannot move contained controls around) but allow selection of contained controls, and provide commands like: move first, move before, move after, move end.

 

[arion_p]

BTW anybody that can help me with that dimColor question from my other post in that forum?

DimColor is applied by bitwise ANDing it with the color on which it is applied (DiffuseColor for Image, TextColor for Label). Both color and alpha are taken into account.
DimColor is applied when the control is in the "dimmed" state.

 

[RivaSA]

Going to try tonight, looks so much easier than what I've been trying.

Will let you know tomorrow

Cheers

 

[NoBugS]

ok, and diffuseColor is also ANDed over the image for example ???

 

[FredP42]

Thanks you this is really nice and definitely needed.
I'm not a skinner myself but this will be useful for plugin developers too.
But maybe with a tool like that I will try to create a skin.

For what I tested, it seems that the Listcontrol is not displayed.

I haven't read the whole thread so excuse me if this has already been answered:
How would you edit the default settings in the references.xml file? since it is the "main" file it would be nice if it the defaults for a control could be edited from the corresponding node in controls (and maybe remove the references.xml file from the list).