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Posted By: DrDan Add a little Color Back To GUI - 12/29/16 02:05 PM
OK, I know this is a sensitive issue. And the "Gray Shades" was an effort to make a more modern and professions look. And I do like the new look! Good Job. But time to move on... grin

Here is a something I think looks very neat and would work in a similar fashion\style with BIAB. Keep the Gray template but just add a bit of color to selected icons.

Check it out.

http://www.rayzoon.com/jamstix4_preview.html
Posted By: John-Luke Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 12/29/16 02:21 PM
+1
yes I know that 'Gray shades' icons are really trendy ! but recently somebody who saw these icons told me 'they are ugly'.
So, add some colors...
It could be an option, according to the taste of the user.
Posted By: MarioD Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 12/29/16 06:59 PM
Originally Posted By: John-Luke
+1
yes I know that 'Gray shades' icons are really trendy ! but recently somebody who saw these icons told me 'they are ugly'.
So, add some colors...
It could be an option, according to the taste of the user.


+1 for the option and/or having the user choose their colors.

Colors like blue, green, red, purple etc can be a big problem for those of us that are partially color blind.
Posted By: musiclover Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 12/31/16 12:49 PM
Yes another big +1 for coloured icons in full screen view.

Musiclover
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 12/31/16 01:38 PM
http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=387240#Post387240

Originally Posted By: PeterGannon
>>> Any reason the icons in a custom menu and the reduced menu need to be black and white? Makes it harder to associate (mentally) the icon with the function...

Good question. The b/w colors were a specific request of many for the new toolbar as the "modern" way of doing things (found in most DAWS). We do plan on making a color variation of these buttons (like skin) so you'd be able to choose which you like. I'd expect that in a future (free) patch.
Posted By: Guitartist Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/09/17 05:26 PM
I'd have to say that I really like the new muted icons, but choice is always good!
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 02:35 AM
Everything should be Customizable for young n old.
I use the Gray mostly but can switch at an instant Ctrl+T to find stuff.
I tried to find the Gray bitmaps in the program to make a user patch to change to color for those that want it but I couldn't find them.

EDIT: found them in C:\bb\Data\Images\MainScreenButtons\
so I will try and make a set up and upload them.

RE-EDIT: These include the Photoshop PSDs that you can open with GIMP Win/Mac if you don't have PS.
Use the gifs in the BIG folders or any transparent gif or png for your custom ones.
Just do an image search on google for png icons they should show transparent checkerboard background when you view them in google images.
To save the pink background bmp to transparent gif you can use Irfanview in the gif save settings
check choose transparent color.
To create blank backgrounds for your custom icons,
in Irfanview select a large area of clean background color beside the icons,
now select the icon and paste,
this will clear the icon for your new ones.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3bz62247457c8li/MainScreenButtons-Color.zip?dl=0
Click No Thanks Continue at bottom

Close Biab
Rename C:\bb\Data\Images\MainScreenButtons\ > MainScreenButtons - Gray
Extract the folder you want from the zip and Rename > MainScreenButtons

I must say the color breaks the nice tone of the new UI, just looks out of place.

Not sure what those little blue square icons are ??? are they meant to be Hard Drives, USB Flash Drives or SD Cards ??

Attached picture BB-Save-Icon.jpg
Attached picture BB-Color-Icons.jpg
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 07:45 AM
I got this far, will do the rest later, I can also make them like Mac so they magnify as you mouseover ?:

Attached picture BB-Color-Icons.gif
Posted By: jford Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 08:25 AM
Very cool, Pipeline.

I know RHARV has tried to do similar things with PowerTracks and RealBand (sometimes successful, sometimes not).

But as you have shown, clearly doable.
Posted By: John-Luke Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 08:26 AM
Good point Pipeline,

That looks better sympathic with your colored icons !
Posted By: AudioTrack Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 08:57 AM
I'm kind-of taking the license to paraphrase here, I'm very sure that the new UI will evolve:

"as it is very flexible with the design. For example, adding new schemes/skins, with different types of buttons (e.g. color), or even a "slightly taller look" is very doable with the design.

So the first step is getting it released, and hearing from customers as to what they want."

Therefore, I guess we can expect that some colors will be part of the future delivery. Small steps... bigger ones will follow.
Posted By: Guitartist Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 09:02 AM
You know what would be REALLY cool? If a mouseover turned a grayscale icon temporarily to color. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? smile



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Posted By: PeterGannon Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 10:57 AM
Pipeline,
Thanks. That's awesome.
Peter
Posted By: DrDan Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 11:55 AM
Originally Posted By: Pipeline
I got this far, will do the rest later, I can also make them like Mac so they magnify as you mouseover ?:



Me Like!
Posted By: rharv Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 01:21 PM
Quote:
Not sure what those little blue square icons are ??? are they meant to be Hard Drives, USB Flash Drives or SD Cards ??


smile

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Posted By: AudioTrack Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 05:30 PM
Originally Posted By: Pipeline
Not sure what those little blue square icons are ??? are they meant to be Hard Drives, USB Flash Drives or SD Cards ??

Yes, clearly used from a slightly earlier icon library:

Attached picture 2017-04-16_06-24-59.jpg
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 10:11 PM
Yes, I'll do a set without the DOS Floppies, with USB or Hard Drive icons.

These include the Photoshop PSDs that you can open with GIMP Win/Mac if you don't have PS.
Use the gifs in the BIG folders or any transparent gif or png for your custom ones.
Just do an image search on google for png icons they should show transparent checkerboard background when you view them in google images.
To save the pink background bmp to transparent gif you can use Irfanview in the gif save settings
check choose transparent color.
To create blank backgrounds for your custom icons,
in Irfanview select a large area of clean background color beside the icons,
now select the icon and paste,
this will clear the icon for your new ones.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3bz62247457c8li/MainScreenButtons-Color.zip?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s6v6tq6fexlnt2w/MainScreenButtons-Color-USB.zip?dl=0

Click No Thanks Continue at bottom

Close Biab
Rename C:\bb\Data\Images\MainScreenButtons\ > MainScreenButtons - Gray
Extract the folder you want from the zip and Rename > MainScreenButtons



These are the 2 included skins, Gray to Color and Color


Attached picture file-new-icon-blank.jpg
Attached File
BB-Color-Icons-Gray.gif  (700 downloads)
Attached picture BB-USB-Icons.jpg
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/15/17 10:30 PM
I will do a set for Mac when it's released, it should be the same deal ?
Posted By: DrDan Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/16/17 05:19 PM
Well that actually works pretty darn nice! grin

I used the full color version and so far have no reason to go back to the prior gray. As best I can figure you opened each icon and "colorized" it. Then saved it back. That had to take a bit of time. crazy

It just took me a minute to replace the old folder (just renamed it to save it) with the new colorized folder and it looks great.

Thanks much for making my wish come true. grin
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/16/17 06:23 PM
In the BIG folders you have the original color icons from the Normal Screen Mode, so I had to lay them over the gray ones:

Full Screen View



Attached File
BB-PS-Icons.gif  (115 downloads)
Posted By: Noel96 Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/16/17 06:29 PM
That's very impressive work, Pipeline!
Posted By: Matt Finley Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/16/17 07:09 PM
I hope PG Music makes this available as a simple option to choose gray or colored icons.
Posted By: rharv Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/16/17 07:39 PM
Maybe a PGMusic tutorial on how we all can customize as desired.
Apparently this feature is available, many just don't know about it.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, I have tinkered with this aspect also (in RB way more than BiaB) and think it would be pretty easy to implement .. so why not?
We have 'User Tracks' but not 'User Skins' .. seems kinda like a no-brainer to me considering the frequent GUI/look/feel requests of many users. I'd rather have the ability to make it look like I want than the ability to create User Tracks for others. Selfish (maybe), but really this should not be that difficult to implement ..

/make it look cool (to you) and share with others (Skins)
//others may like it and use it; win/win for PGMusic, if not, no loss (no harm no foul)
/// profit

//// I just wanted to see to four slashies
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/16/17 08:00 PM
Yes, it just needs an option to set what folders to use.
These are the folders the Compact Screen Mode are in below, the Normal Screen Mode uses the icons in the BIG folders.

Attached picture BB-Skin-Choice.jpg
Attached picture BB-Buttons-Used.jpg
Attached picture BB-File-Icon-Folder.jpg
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/17/17 08:49 AM
Color on Dark
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r468hhn7atqlkww/MainScreenButtons-Color-on-Dark.zip?dl=0
Click No Thanks Continue at Bottom

Attached picture BB-Skin-Color-Dark.jpg
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/17/17 05:48 PM
Color Zoom
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1qgil9xulij7nt9/MainScreenButtons-Color-Zoom.zip?dl=0
Click No Thanks Continue at bottom




Color on All Dark
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zppyqr53su9ww8w/MainScreenButtons-Color-on-All-Dark.zip?dl=0
Click No Thanks Continue at Bottom

Attached picture BB-Skin-Color-All-Dark.jpg
Posted By: DrDan Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/17/17 07:00 PM
This is fantastic, opps, crazy wait a minute I already had posted that. blush But really, I really like this touch of color against the gray background. grin

Posted By: Matt Finley Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/17/17 07:05 PM
Dan, good observation. I think you are likely correct.

I hope these color options get added to the program in a menu. Hacks tend to get overwritten by new versions.
Posted By: DrDan Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/17/17 07:08 PM
Matt I moved this to a separate thread since I am really interested in the fact that over all this time only two users have gone in to hack the workings of BIAB - both bringing some neat features.
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/20/17 01:16 AM
Originally Posted By: MarioD
......
+1 for the option and/or having the user choose their colors.

Colors like blue, green, red, purple etc can be a big problem for those of us that are partially color blind.

Try this:
https://www.ryobi-sol.co.jp/visolve/en/
Posted By: AudioTrack Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 04/20/17 02:56 AM
Yes, I really hope the development team are watching this and incorporate these improvements as permanent features.
Posted By: Pipeline Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI Win Mac - 04/20/17 06:19 PM
I made a Mac guide here http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=407586
Posted By: DrDan Re: Add a little Color Back To GUI - 05/27/17 01:42 PM
Noticed today I lost my "colored icons". Must of happened with one of the recent updates. Hate to have to take the time to find the files which needed to be replaced and renamed to get it back the way it was.

I guess it will just continue to sit in the wish list. crazy
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