SkinUI: changing list colour?

[c-j-archer]

Is it possible to change the background colour of a list with SkinUI? I tried the "Vista Inspirat" skin from Dmitry's Site and with the default the combination of background colour/font coulour the content of the list is hard to read. I tried to change the colours through the "Edit" function of SkinUI - but no go, it didn't work :( .
Are there any other possibilities for changing the colour of the lists?

What I mean is this:
http://cjarcher.pytalhost.eu/sonstiges/SkinUI_Liste.jpg

[dmitrygr]

yes, deselect skin, select "edit", edit colors, find the page that has "object background", change it, save, reselect skin

[c-j-archer]

Hmmm, thats strange... I can't find such an option on any colour editing page :confused: :

Page 1 has:
Buttons, Selectors, Pushbuttons

Page 2 has:
Checkboxes, Radiobuttons, Popuptriggers

Page 3 has:
form titles, alert boxes

Page 4 has:
Field options

Page 5 has:
Command bar/Menu

Page 6 has:
text halo

I am using SkinUI v.2.1.0.0.

[palmgeek5394]

Hmmm. I only have v2.0.5.0. There is a later version? BTW, I don't see it either. Do you mean the "Colorize" option? :confused:

[tosbsas]

same here - no edit helped, colorize did some effect, but this color is locked for example to the skins name and else. If anyone could change that -this would be the best skin out there

Ruben

[palmgeek5394]

You'd have to get the source for it, then edit it and recompile it. :rolleyes:

[tosbsas]

yep,but as far as I know -developer is gone (:-((

Ruben

[dmitrygr]

you can edit it in rsrc edit

[c-j-archer]

How? Can it be changed with Bird, too?

[tosbsas]

rsrc edit sounds good - but how - archer you going for it??

Ruben

[c-j-archer]

I tried it with BIRD, but without luck - I don't know what to change.
ABMPs seem to be the pictures. I don't think one has to patch the file here. And in the other rescources I can't find a possible place for the changes..

[dmitrygr]

from skinui cobalt skin source:


//values of 0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 mean let system decide this color



HEX "skCl" 0
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIObjectFrame --nothing anymore
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF //UIObjectFill --nothing anymore
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 //UIObjectForeground --text color of controls/labels
0x00 0x99 0x99 0xFF //UIObjectSelectedFill --nothing anymore
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF //UIObjectSelectedForeground --nothing anymore
0x00 0xCC 0xCC 0xCC //UIMenuFrame --command bar border color
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF //UIMenuFill --menu unselected background
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 //UIMenuForeground --menu unselected text
0x00 0x00 0x99 0xFF //UIMenuSelectedFill --menu selected background
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF //UIMenuSelectedForeground --menu selected text
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF //UIFieldBackground --field background, should be same as form background
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 //UIFieldText --field lines
0x00 0xDD 0xDD 0xDD //UIFieldTextLines --same as above...I think
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 //UIFieldCaret --the vertical blinking thing - its color
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 //UIFieldTextHighlightBackground --field selected text background
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0x66 //UIFieldTextHighlightForeground --field selected test color
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIFieldFepRawText --fep = chinese/japanese recognition - let system deal with this
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIFieldFepRawBackground --fep = chinese/japanese recognition - let system deal with this
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIFieldFepConvertedText --fep = chinese/japanese recognition - let system deal with this
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIFieldFepConvertedBackground --fep = chinese/japanese recognition - let system deal with this
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIFieldFepUnderline --fep = chinese/japanese recognition - let system deal with this
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIFormFrame --nothing anymore
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF //UIFormFill --color of forms' background
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIDialogFrame --nothing anymore
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF //UIDialogFill --color of dialogs' background
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0x66 //skinUI_FormTitleTextColor --color of form title text //was UIAlertFrame
0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF //UIAlertFill --color of alerts' background
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIOK --system never uses this
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UICaution --system never uses this
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIWarning --system never uses this
0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 //UIFieldFepConvertedUnderline --fep = chinese/japanese recognition - let system deal with this


each value, as you see, is 4 bytes long, and resource type is ('skCl', 0)
the one you need is "UIObjectFill", so you need to edit the 4 bytes at offset 4 from the start of the resource. Make the first a "00", and edit the next three to be the color in RGB in hexadecimal, you can find a color-picker here: => [LINK (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~FX6M-FJMY/java09e.html)] <=

thus to make it light blue, you need to make the four bytes at offset 4 "00 CC CC FF"

[tosbsas]

thanks dmitry - but no uiobjectfill here - only abmp

At least in rsc edit

Ruben

[BrentDC]

Tosbas, this is totally different than what can be done in a resource editor. Dmitry, what was this compiled on?

[c-j-archer]

With Dmitry's list I managed to change the background colour of the list http://cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/d055.gif .
Get the result here (http://cjarcher.pytalhost.eu/go.php?id=skui_vista_mod).
http://cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/d040.gif
I thought it would be much more difficult.

Edit: now it just has to be implemented in SkinUI - doing all these steps onboard without PC is a bit difficult :)

[tosbsas]

no the only thing missing in this skin is those little animated icons (:-))

Thanks cj archer

[newworld]

Thanks for sharing cj archer.

[palmgeek5394]

Cool.. looks great! :cool:

[dmitrygr]

you can make the icons easily,they are stored as simply a set of bitmaps

[tosbsas]

@dmitry
Could you imagine to help us fast and quickly?

Ruben

[dmitrygr]

make the images, i can put them in the skin for you

[tosbsas]

just use the ones you made for cobalt (:;-))

Ruben

[tosbsas]

got the skin back from dmitry -archer where do you want it sent to, to upload it

http://www.files.to/get/93964/wh0cc49e3z

Ruben