Starship Krupa Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) I know that a UI color that has been customized via Preferences>Customization>Colors will override the same color as set in a theme. I also know that there are some UI colors that may only be customized via Preferences>Customization>Colors. Examples of the latter include Clips Pane/Vertical Beat Lines and Clips Pane/Vertical Measure Lines, which control the color of the vertical grid lines in the Track View Clips and Track View Bus Pane. Has anyone made a list of which colors are exclusive to Color Preferences? The only ones I know of are the two I listed above. If so, I'd like to see it, if not, it seems ripe for some "purpletration" testing. (going through the list in Colors, there are bunches that I suspect are deprecated) Edited April 24, 2021 by Starship Krupa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) I went down the list in Preferences>Customization>Colors, and, using the search function in The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, found the entries that seem to have no corresponding entry in Theme Editor. There were more than I expected. Some of them appear to be UI elements that don't have their own entry in Theme Editor but have been determined by Colin to follow other elements' entries. Whether changing them in Colors overrides only the named UI element and not the associated ones can be discovered via testing. Not all of them are described in the unfortunately non-alphabetized documentation. At some point I might try Colin's "purpletrator" idea of changing these unlisted colors to eye-searing fluorescent in order to see what jumps out. Some of them are listed with description in the documentation but don't seem to have any corresponding actual UI element, like Folder Clip Text. One or more of them may have no effect on the UI element it is said to control. (such an entry is "Console Hardware Output Name Text") One of my goals with this is to get a better handle on it so that I can offer Racing Green users a customized color set to go along with it. Vertical Beat Lines, Vertical Measure Lines, and Tempo Envelope (which has an entry in Theme Editor but only obeys its Colors entry) are especially of interest. I find the standard grid lines in both TV and PRV too dim. Without further ado, here are the Colors entries that appear to have no direct counterpart in Theme Editor. Additions, subtractions, clarifications welcome: AudioSnap Marker AudioSnap Pool Member Marker Vertical Beat Lines Vertical Measure Lines Bus Send Angle Bus Send Focus Bus Send Front/Rear Balance Bus Send LFE Bus Send Width Clip Fades Clip Gain Envelope Clip Pan Envelope Clip Velocity Envelope Comp Header Console Hardware Output Name Text (purpletrated and has no visible effect) Disabled AudioSnap Marker Drawing Erasing Event List ChanAftEvents Event List Control Events Event List KeyAft Events Event List Note Events Event List Patch Events Event List Special Events Event List Sysx Events Event List Wheel Events Events First controller/surface channel number display Folder Clip Background Folder Clip Text Folder Line Fourth controller/surface color choice Front/Rear Balance Envelope Maximum stretched AudioSnap Marker Musical Snap Pool Markers Navigator rectangle Note that is on Peak Marker (<=0dB) Peak Marker (>=0dB) Peak Marker Text Region FX Clip Background Second controller/surface color choice Snap Offset Markers Snap To Scale Excluded Rows Surround Angle Envelope Surround Focus Envelope Surround LFE Send Control/Envelope Surround Width Envelope Tempo Envelope Third controller/surface color choice Track View Bus Send Level X Control/Envelope Track View Bus Send Pan X Control/Envelope Track View MIDI Chorus Track View MIDI Reverb Control/Envelope Track View Mute Envelope Track View Pan Control/Envelope Track View Volume Control/Envelope Values Edited May 2, 2021 by Starship Krupa spelling Colin's name correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Nicholls Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 I sense a third-party chapter contribution to YLIP coming on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Nelson Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, Starship Krupa said: One or more of them may have no effect on the UI element it is said to control. (such an entry is "Console Hardware Output Name Text") One of the tough things about making a custom theme is the doggone hidden dependencies and (like in this case) outright dead end goose chases. I have to find compromises where the text in one place and also in another is just, well... visible! Edited April 24, 2021 by John Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) @Starship Krupa Thanks for doing this! The list of Colors in Preferences is a carryover from the pre-X series and many are now "broken" (non useable or misapplied). The documentation list you linked to is now incomplete and contains colors no longer listed. If colors are important to a theme you can set them how you like and create (export) a color list for that theme. Cakewalk & Theme Editor both contain left-over, non-used graphics from previous Sonar versions as well. Edited April 24, 2021 by sjoens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 10 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said: I sense a third-party chapter contribution to YLIP coming on Perhaps it's just a mild case of appendicitis. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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