a pretty lake in fall
well until i learn how to do the transparency, it’s done,
it’s a really great picture i took on a trip once and thought
it would make a nice theme, so if anyone can me how to do the
transparency of the library and left tab that would a great help in
finishing this feather
working on transparency
.2- cleaned up the bug icon
1.0 updated to reflect songbird .6pre
2.0updated transparency and color
new screenshot is up
email-alpha1beta@live.com
homepage- http://code.google.com/p/alpha1beta
once again thanks to Matt Marie for torture testing it, and
JRCE and John for his advise on
transparency
© 2005-2009 Pioneers of the Inevitable
Hey just some helping points on the transparency:
in the window chrome of the colors.css file apply an opacity to the background color and it should become more transparent. note that this will also apply a transparency to the faceplate and the miniplayer. here is an example that I am using in my feather-in-development:
*/
wizard,
dialog,
window,
prefwindow,
sb-playlist,
page
{
background-color: #000000;
color: transparent;
opacity: 0.7;
}
notice in midnight whisper (my recently added theme) that i removed the left pane background entirely but make sure text stands out enough against your picture (i suggest adding the opacity over taking it out all together)
to implement a transparency behind the playlist, also play with the opacity but if you want there to be an image where the songlist does not reach the bottom, you can go in the images.css file and add a background image behind the playlist. my code is below:
sb-playlist
{
background-image: url(chrome://songbird/skin/backgrounds/background3.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
just play in photoshop to crop the image just right so it matches with the main pane background. (this will also be implemented in my new feather that is yet to be released. ill try and put it up this weekend although Im not quite finished with it yet. (it’ll be names something relevant to dark red/grunge/foliage fyi)
hope this helped :)
~JRCE
thanks you so much
i hope to have a finished version up by tonight, tomorrow tops
~lognbow
This feather really has a lot of potential, but right now this feather needs some work to make it fit in with itself better. Because the BG is beautiful, but we can’t really see that because of everything in the way. But it looks like jrce gave you some good advice there on how to make the background visible using opacity.
But one thing that you will need to address is the color scheme with the text, and making them more visible.
And the bug button needs some work, because there are still some pieces of the old image in there.
And if you need any help finding how to style any of the elements, I recommend DLing a feather that has a feature that you like, and looking through it’s source to find out how it was done.
And you are also most welcome to ask me for any other help that you need/want, and I will try to help with my limited knowledge. ;)
Cheers,
John
well I’ve taken a look at a few feathers that have this and think iIm ready to give it a shot
my last question for the moment is how and where to you get the .txt doc to extract? i take it you have to tell it where in the install.rdf but is there anything else you have to change?
What .txt file do you want to extract? I don’t quite understand what you are asking.
correction CSS i believe not txt like what’s in JRCE’s post
the CSS files that changes the color of the text and the transparency.
do i have to change the install.rdf file to show that there is a CSS file to extract too?
cause i messed around with taking the CSS files from another feather and just zipping them in with the chrome.manifest, chrome, and install.rdf and nothing happened so to make somehting happen to i have to change the install.rdf or chrom.manifest files to show that there is a image.css file or another similar 1?
cuase i think i can just copy the files from another feather:
images.css
songbird.css
color.css and such and just tweak them to fit my needs in this feather, does that look possible?
thanks in advance
~longbow
You won’t have to add anything in the install.rdf But it would be a good idea if you would take what you already have, and just change the values instead of grabbing someone elses .CSS files. Since odds are they changed some things that effect more than you will want them to change.
If you want to just switch files though, all you will need to do is switch the files. Making sure you delete the old files from the directory, since you only need one file of each.
But really, what I recommend is that you just make the feather using the developer tools Add-on, and making a feather, and then changing values where you want them to be changed, and changing images the same way.
wow i was lost and thanks to you i have a small idea of what i’m doing
first off i didn’t realize that all feathers has css files attached and now that i know my feather does i cna work with that and see what happens
expect a update within a few days and before that a lot of questions lol
superkoop thank you so much i was almost ready to call it quits
Hey no problem! Glad you are starting to get it figured out! =)
I modified this skin and made the library transparent. here’s a screenshot.
http://swenhalver.googlepages.com/prettylakemodified.jpg
if somebody wants the xpi just say so
very nice i was going to do that someday but school is taking all of my time for now I will try to get to it asap and very nice mod
please post this for everyone to use until I get around to fixing that
Here’s the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wxg331hgyhz
Oh, and it works best if you change the settings to always have the tab bar on.