Is there any plans to give openmpt some colour schemes? Or are there some already available? If so point the arse in the right direction.
Cheers Fatarse. :o
I was referring more to the main GUI not the pattern editor colour schemes.
You cannot. OpenMPT uses the default look & feel of your operating system, so if you don't like the colours, you will have to change them in the operating system.
So whatever happened to skinning ?
No need to making it ugly.
To rephrase what I said: Why do you just want OpenMPT to look that way and not your entire operating system? If you don't like how OpenMPT looks, then I wonder why this only applies to OpenMPT and not the rest of your software.
One of OpenMPT's strongest selling points still is its native look & feel for me.
Who says skinning is ugly? I have some very good software .... That thrives on skins!
To be honest I don't like dull and grey interfaces.... Just like the dull and grey world! A bit of colour brightens my day... And so does software if it wasn't dull and grey! Openmpt is not the only grey mule out there! With a colourful flavour I would smile everyday I opened it to create a smiling tune! Rather than dull and boring one.
All in favour of colourful skins ! Say I! ;D
See, and this is why you should use skins for your operating system and not for specific programs.
It's not the OS I'm concerned about saga musix, and there are specific programs that do promote skinning!
Yes, but what I'm trying to manifest here is that it should not be up to the applications to make themselves look / feel pretty and, more importantly, non-standard - it should be up to the system to look whatever the user wants it to look like. Hence: This is not going to happen with OpenMPT.
Then I suppose creating a plugin for changing the interface will never happen? Pity I liked the skins look with Winamp allowing users to create there own look. But that's Winamp pity openmpt won't have that same option. :-\
Get windows blinds and you have the exact same thing, except, its for your entire windows. ;)
And if you use the classic Windows scheme that is available until Windows 7, you don't even need third-party software to customize your OS colours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9sd4rPtaj0
This is not a skinned OpenMPT - it's just a modified OS colour scheme.
Quote from: Saga Musix on February 13, 2016, 15:30:30
And if you use the classic Windows scheme that is available until Windows 7, you don't even need third-party software to customize your OS colours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9sd4rPtaj0
This is not a skinned OpenMPT - it's just a modified OS colour scheme.
Actually, if you have Windows 8.1 or 10, they come with High Contrast themes where this color customization is still possible. Finding it in 10 proved to be difficult though, but its there.
Looks like we are going around in circles. I'm not talking about the OS I'm referring to the program itself! But as saga musix said he has no intention of changing openmpt's interface via skin plugins... So I guess I will look at a dull grey interface while making music , if I use it to make music.
Quote from: Fatarse on February 14, 2016, 09:24:04
Looks like we are going around in circles. I'm not talking about the OS I'm referring to the program itself! But as saga musix said he has no intention of changing openmpt's interface via skin plugins... So I guess I will look at a dull grey interface while making music , if I use it to make music.
And this kind of cynical note won't change our attitudes. If you want OpenMPT to look differently, you can use other software or OS skins. So there's no need to look at the dull grey interface at all.
Here's an image of my OpenMPT:
(http://mftp.lp1.nl/mpt_tracking_with_sequences_and_hear_them_all_at_the_same_time.png)
Not dull at all!
Haha that's just the pattern editor modification! Each to their own!
I felt compelled to bump this with my own. Let's see who has the most beautiful looking OpenMPT out there! :P I'm not saying this is "beautiful" but certainly the most easy (despite a couple of elements not playing nice there with stubborn black text) on my particular pair of eyeballs:-
(http://www.violationentertainment.com/temp/myopenmpt.png)
BTW, I completely agree that this software should not be skinnable unless of course it will in no way interfere with the performance and compatibility of the software, which is the great thing about it. Nothing worse than audio software that tries to look like a game UI and then struggles to mix even 16 channels together at once. OpenMPT FTW!
I know this is an old post, but may I ask what os skin software you are using to change the color of the gui?
In my screensot, I used Windows 7 with just changing the GUI itself from Windows 7 themes. This was an option to use if you chose the classic theme. You could then alter its colors, just like in Windows XP if you did not go for the fancy theme either, or Windows 2k and earlier where you only had the classic theme.
In recent versions of Windows, you have to switch to high-contrast in order to be able to set colors, which sort enables the classic theme, but it doesn't look nearly as good as in Windows 7.
Alternative options would be to use something like Window blinds (https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/) or UxTheme patching.
Exactly... WindowBlinds is the answer ;)
(https://i.postimg.cc/9fZcdLcS/test.jpg)
I think OpenMPT looks nice the way it is, it is easy on the eyes, I find software with dark themes difficult to find my way around with my 48 year old stigmatism eyes, but that is just my preference, others may prefer dark themes. I try to set all my software to bright themes.