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Add colored icons to the Transport control [Resolved] #444858 12/13/17 06:04 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley OP Veteran
OP Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	BIAB 2018 now gives us the ability to select skins in Preferences, Display. As a starter, PG Music made some nice color icons available for the Toolbars. Perhaps they will release more skins in the future, but if you experiment, you can also make your own. The steps below will give you color icons for the Transport control (Play, Record, Pause etc.) as well as color icons for the Toolbar that were provided by PG Music. Note this is for the newer GUI, not the older full-screen GUI. CTRL+T toggles between them. These steps assume some familiarity with creating and moving folders and files in Windows. ⦁ Using Windows Explorer or similar, navigate to this folder: /BB/Data/Custom Skins ⦁ Copy the folder PG_Color_right_toolbar to another folder in the same place, and give it a unique name (I called mine Matt_Skins). ⦁ Download my six files below and copy them into the PNL_TRANSPORT folder, which is a folder in your new skins folder. They will replace the files of the same name. ⦁ Then close and restart BIAB 2018, go to Preferences, Display, Choose Skin (lower left) and select your skin name. You should see color icons for transport controls. http://mattfinley.com/bb/loop_s1_m3_i102.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/playgen_s1_m3_i99.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/pause_s1_m3_i100.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/stop_s1_m3_i101.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/play_s1_m3_i98.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/record_s1_m3_i103.bmp Notes: feel free to use these, and improve them if you like. The original grey-shade icons appear to be made in Microsoft Paint, and use visible pixels, so I did some rudimentary pixel editing in MS Paint to add color. There is probably some industry color standard for these and I didn't use it. If you improve on my bad editing in Paint or decide on better colors, let me know and I'll replace mine. If you don't like the way these look, you can undo it by copying over them from the same-named files in the /BB/Data/Custom Skins/Factory folder. Or just select another skin in Preferences, Display. BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #444899 12/13/17 10:01 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,299 Melbourne, Australia	Excellent! Much improved with the new skins. Thank you Matt. Attached Files (Click to download or enlarge) (Only available when you are logged in) 2017-12-12_12-19-48.jpg (27.11 KB, 602 downloads) BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #444941 12/13/17 02:04 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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DrDan Veteran Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 12,218 Wauconda	OK, that worked for me. My eyes really need the bits of color to help distinguish the small icons. Thanks BIAB – 2025, Reaper (current), i7-12700F Processor, 32GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, 1TB WD Black NVMe SSD, 2TB WDC Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue, 2 TB SK NVMe, 6 TB External, Motu Audio Express 6x6

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #552518 09/02/19 06:10 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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0zoro Enthusiast 0 Joined: May 2014 Posts: 38 Stockholm, Sweden	Hej Matt! I tried to dwonload the files but.......... no. I understand the instructions but how do I get the files downloaded? Thanks. Spicing up BIAB is very enticing!

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #552522 09/02/19 06:18 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley OP Veteran
OP Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Hi. I’d forgotten all about this. It was really a proof of concept, but I do like having the colored icons. I just checked and the files are still active on my website. Your browser should allow you to save each of these files. Perhaps right-click? Then move them to the proper folder and Restart BIAB. If that doesn’t work, what browser are you using? And do you have a Mac or Windows version? I haven’t tried it on a Mac. BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #552683 09/03/19 02:34 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Joseph Land Expert J Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 975 Springfield, MO	Worked like a champ Matt. BIAB2025 Windows 10 Pro WA6NCB No Longer on a Crappy Laptop!

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #555171 09/17/19 05:58 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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0zoro Enthusiast 0 Joined: May 2014 Posts: 38 Stockholm, Sweden	Hi Matt sorry for the response latency. I have been using Firefox which did not download the files. Having switched to Edge that part worked fine. I have downloaded the files and put them in a new map in biab´s data/custom skins called Mats skins. Having chosen this in the display of BIAB´s preferences, and re started, I was presented with the same icon colors I have originally in BIB 2019 that I had at start. I am obviously missing something, would sorely appreciate guidance. Regards Jim

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #555187 09/17/19 08:03 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley OP Veteran
OP Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Jim, I'm disappointed, as you must be. It's always chancy to give instructions to someone else when their computer organization and methods of copying files could be quite different. Did you follow the four steps above, especially step 3? In step 3, did the operating system ask you about replacing the files that were there? Do you have a Mac or Windows version of BIAB? BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #555457 09/18/19 11:45 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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0zoro Enthusiast 0 Joined: May 2014 Posts: 38 Stockholm, Sweden	Hi Matt. Thanks for your willingness to help! Let me start with, i run W10, BIAB 2019. Let me try to recount my step by step: -I have downloaded your files, - made a new map in BB/data/custom skins labeled Matts, into which I have copied the entire map PG color right toolbar fullscreen file, -thus replacing the content of the PLN TRANSPORT file with the content of your 5 files. -after which I have chosen in BIAB>skins Matts, Oked, closed and restarted. The display I get in BIAB unchanged. Is the above clear enough to see what I am not getting right? In the options>display section I now have several alternative skins 1. default, 2. factory, 3 pg_color_right toobar_fullscreen, 4.current color scheme, 5. Matts. I have just checked and I get no variation when chosing the different alternatives described above. This tells me something is amiss, though what/where is not getting through to me as clearly as I would like. Perhaps I should contact PG support, I admit that I earlier could have affected things while trying to make a custome scheme prior to finding your post, thus perhaps some how a digital clot?

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #555459 09/19/19 12:01 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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0zoro Enthusiast 0 Joined: May 2014 Posts: 38 Stockholm, Sweden	PS. I have just reinstalled BIAB in the hope that something I may have changed earlier will be righted, this however did not make a difference.

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #555467 09/19/19 03:08 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley OP Veteran
OP Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	I’m not at a computer until this weekend; I just wanted you to know I’ve read your response. I’ll review your steps. BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #557006 09/29/19 06:03 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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0zoro Enthusiast 0 Joined: May 2014 Posts: 38 Stockholm, Sweden	That fine Matt, I wander in and out of computer land myself. I will gratefully catch you later! jim

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #557642 10/03/19 01:58 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley OP Veteran
OP Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Jim, I reviewed this and decided to revise and repeat the steps, since I cannot edit my original post. I'll post the steps below. I revised the bullets that should have been clearer, to put the new files (there are six, not five) into the PNL_TRANSPORT folder in the BB/Data/CustomSkins folder. HOWEVER - your description of what you did is correct, and should have worked. I have no idea why it did not. Perhaps go through these steps, below, again? BIAB 2018 now gives us the ability to select skins in Preferences, Display. As a starter, PG Music made some nice color icons available for the Toolbars. Perhaps they will release more skins in the future, but if you experiment, you can also make your own. The steps below will give you color icons for the Transport control (Play, Record, Pause etc.) as well as color icons for the Toolbar that were provided by PG Music. Note this is for the newer GUI, not the older full-screen GUI used exclusively in BIAB 2017 or earlier. In BIAB 2018 or later, CTRL+T toggles between them. These steps assume some familiarity with creating and moving folders and files in Windows. ⦁ Using Windows Explorer or similar, navigate to this folder: /BB/Data/Custom Skins EDIT: see next post if using other languages ⦁ You should see several folders, including Factory and PG_Color_right_toolbar ⦁ Copy the folder PG_Color_right_toolbar to another folder in the same place, and give it a unique name (I called mine Matt_Skins). You should now have several folders in the /CustomSkins folder, including Factory, Matt_Skins (or whatever you called yours), and PG_Color_right_toolbar. ⦁ Download my six files below. Save them somewhere you can find. ⦁ Navigate into your new Matt_Skins folder (or whatever you called it). Then navigate into the PNL_TRANSPORT folder. You should see six files with a date of November 2016. Copy my six downloaded files into this PNL_TRANSPORT folder. They will replace the files of the same name, and will have a new date, the date you saved the files to your computer. ⦁ To use the new icons, close and restart BIAB, go to Preferences, Display, Choose Skin (lower left) and select your new skin name (Matt_Skins in my case). You should see color icons for transport controls. Here are the six files: http://mattfinley.com/bb/loop_s1_m3_i102.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/playgen_s1_m3_i99.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/pause_s1_m3_i100.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/stop_s1_m3_i101.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/play_s1_m3_i98.bmp http://mattfinley.com/bb/record_s1_m3_i103.bmp Notes: feel free to use these, and improve them if you like. The original grey-shade icons appear to be made in Microsoft Paint, and use visible pixels, so I did some rudimentary pixel editing in MS Paint to add color. There is probably some industry color standard for these and I didn't use it. If you improve on my bad editing in Paint or decide on better colors, let me know and I'll replace mine. If you don't like the way these look, you can undo it by copying over them from the same-named files in the /BB/Data/Custom Skins/Factory folder. Or just select another skin in Preferences, Display. Last edited by Matt Finley; 10/04/19 05:16 AM. BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #557669 10/03/19 09:24 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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whanika Enthusiast W Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 30 Germany	Hi all, I use a localized Version (German). And so it's not The "CustomSkins" Folder, but the "CustomSkinsG" Folder. So anyone using a localized Version should look for his "CustomSkins" Version. For me, replacing the files works fine. Thanks. BIAB 2024 UltraPlusPAK, Cubase 13, Ethno , SC8850, MU80, QUASAR, Win 10 (64), U-PHORIA UMC 1820, Halion 7, Wavelab 12 Elements, Dorico 5 Elements,

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control whanika #557795 10/04/19 01:27 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,299 Melbourne, Australia	Thanks for the feedback on this. This can assist others in the future. Glad you got it working OK. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #558061 10/06/19 11:15 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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0zoro Enthusiast 0 Joined: May 2014 Posts: 38 Stockholm, Sweden	Thanks Matt, i will be out of own for a while but will get on this as soon as I return.

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #560886 10/26/19 06:23 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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0zoro Enthusiast 0 Joined: May 2014 Posts: 38 Stockholm, Sweden	Hi Matt, I have returned and it has worked like a charm. I dont know what exactly didnt go right previously, but the download/installation worked fine this time. Thanks so much for your patience as well as your contribution! Jim

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #560893 10/26/19 07:45 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,992 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	My pleasure! We should do more of these conversions. BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Add colored icons to the Transport control Matt Finley #560971 10/27/19 02:27 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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