Skins and Opaque Images

[Old Dog]

I'm working on a new skin...

When drawing an image, it appears translucent--some of the background shows through.

How do you draw an opaque image?

[reboot]

Set transparency=0
Look in the xml files, specifically in the Panels folder, and main menu. You'll see how it's implemented.

[reven]

for some plugins you cant change this, the transparency is set in code.

usually the background image is solid and the foreground has 80% transparency (or 20%.....).

[Old Dog]

Set transparency=0
Look in the xml files, specifically in the Panels folder, and main menu. You'll see how it's implemented.

[SIZE="5"]
Hi Reboot,

Thanks for the reply. I attempted to follow your advice. The only reference I found to transparency was in the main menu xml file. In my own file I modified these transparency values as follows:
[/SIZE]
[SIZE="3"]
<SpecialElement name="Panel" panelName="Clock" visible="true" transparency="0.0" loc="460,24" size="220,70"/>
<SpecialElement name="Panel" panelName="NextRecording" visible="true" transparency="1.0" loc="382,355" size="340,70"/>
[/SIZE]

[SIZE="5"]These atrributes worked, but opposite what I expected. Minimum transparency yielded a invisible text, maximum transparency yielded opaque text.

I then applied the transparency attribute to my DrawImage tags as follows:
[/SIZE]
[SIZE="3"] <DrawImage filename="ButtonDn.png" loc="0,0" size="256,40" transparency="1.0"/>
<DrawImage filename="ButtonUp.png" loc="0,0" size="256,40" transparency="0.0"/>

[/SIZE]
[SIZE="5"]
The transparency attribute had no effect in the DrawImage tags.

Have I gone wrong?

Thanks again for your help.
David
[/SIZE]

[Old Dog]

for some plugins you cant change this, the transparency is set in code.

usually the background image is solid and the foreground has 80% transparency (or 20%.....).

Hi Reven,

Say it ain't so!

As it is, I have to use a solid background, but users seem to like some kind of background image.

It would be nice to have a background image and be able to draw both opaque and translucent images over it.

I appreciate your reply.

Thanks,
David

[Necro]

As far as I can tell, translucent buttons have to be image based transparency (like a png).

[Old Dog]

As far as I can tell, translucent buttons have to be image based transparency (like a png).

Hi Necro,

Actually the problem is that all drawn images appear translucent, even JPGs. I would like to draw opaque images.

Thanks for the reply,
David

[Necro]

Ah sorry, seems I'm having the opposite problem as you. Heh...my images are translucent enough and I can't change it.