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2017/07/12 01:58:23 (permalink)

Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks?

Hello Bakers,
 
Is there any chance of fully color-coding the tracks and clips in the Tungsten theme for better project organization?  I like Tungsten very much, however, I don't use it because I can't fully color code my tacks to appear in the track and console view the way I can in the Mercury Theme.  I don't like just seeing the color strip only at the bottom of the track and Console View.
 
Is there possibly a solution in the works for having the full coloring of tracks, Aux tracks and buses in Tungsten, soon?
 
Thanks for any response you can provide about the progress of this problem.
post edited by Jesse G - 2017/07/12 03:32:24

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Re: Tungsten Theme Problem with Fully Coloring of Tracks 2017/07/12 02:28:50 (permalink)
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Re: Tungsten Theme Problem with Fully Coloring of Tracks 2017/07/12 03:39:34 (permalink)
Echo +2 . . . I want this too !
Though, if it was easy, wouldn't it be done by now ? . . . I've seen this requested before, especially around the time when the theme editor first was released.

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Re: Tungsten Theme Problem with Fully Coloring of Tracks 2017/07/12 05:24:30 (permalink)
They've already stated no. The original Mercury theme will be the only one that ever has this feature.

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Re: Tungsten Theme Problem with Fully Coloring of Tracks 2017/07/12 05:42:06 (permalink)
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They've already stated no. The original Mercury theme will be the only one that ever has this feature.


Hmm . . . Resonant, I've never seen that posted anywhere . . . but I guess when you really think about it . . . it's hardly a dark tungsten theme if it has multiple brightly coloured track and console strip displays.

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Re: Tungsten Theme Problem with Fully Coloring of Tracks 2017/07/12 05:45:08 (permalink)
It was quite a while back, but I don't remember which thread. Apparently, it was some clever coding that did it in Mercury, and can't be duplicated and still have the Theme Editor work. 

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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 05:48:05 (permalink)
WRT to the modified subject line, I don't think "we" have anything to do with it and the change is a feature request not a fix. A popular feature request that is still open for votes and comments
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Re: Tungsten Theme Problem with Fully Coloring of Tracks 2017/07/12 05:56:21 (permalink)
Clever coding indeed . . . anyways, I'm sure everyone knows how easy it is to switch between Mercury and Tungsten themes, depending on how you need your different projects to display. It totally makes sense to be a limitation of the Theme Editor and retaining compatibility with that system.

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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 06:06:06 (permalink)
Is Duckbar still an option? The SONAR Mods site has slowed down considerably.
 
There are a few more pressing issues than adding color track strips to themes for me. Still here is hoping all the feature requests get implemented as time provides.
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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 06:41:06 (permalink)
With Alpha channel and Raster Operations, why it is so difficult to implement this color strip feature ?
Maybe the theme editor have to implement an alpha channel tool. Then, a simple raster operation with track color and "alpha channelled" image would do the trick. How is it done with Mercury Theme ? Mercury Theme has probably some alpha channel information...
Okay, on the paper it seems to be easy, it's probably more complicated with existing code...
 
Hope the bakers will found a solution. 
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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 11:48:38 (permalink)
I've been spending Cake-Coins voting this thing up in the bakery.
I suggest everyone else do the same. If we stand together and fight this colored strips war as workers united we can get the colored strips back to the front line.

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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 12:40:20 (permalink)
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Is Duckbar still an option? The SONAR Mods site has slowed down considerably.
 
There are a few more pressing issues than adding color track strips to themes for me. Still here is hoping all the feature requests get implemented as time provides.


Scook,
 
Everyone has there "More Pressings Issues" in Sonar.  As for me there are some features that I ill never use in Sonar Platinum. However, for me and the Tungsten them, having the fully colored tracks and buses is one of those, "More Pressings Issues" for me.

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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 13:02:29 (permalink)
I still use Duckbar with the Mercury theme.  Haven't tried with the Tungsten theme. Seens as if Panu can modify a theme Sonar engineers could also. More a matter of priorites i think.

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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 13:17:18 (permalink)
Ok, tried Duckbar on the Tungsten theme..... No go, only works on Mercury. Still is my best option.
 

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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 13:17:29 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby RSMCGUITAR 2017/07/12 22:48:04
The coloured bars work for me in tungsten. I can't think of anything worse than lurid, coloured strips ruining the dark interface. So while I hope you get what you want from the bakers, I also hope they make it an option so that it isn't imposed on those of us who don't want it. I kind of feel it is an option at the moment though depending which theme you choose.

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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 21:21:36 (permalink)
I seem to be suffering from post going missing syndrome, so once again I feel compelled to add.......
 
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Make it an option if you must, but please don't inflict the rainbow on the rest of us again.
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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 21:54:35 (permalink)
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Is Duckbar still an option? The SONAR Mods site has slowed down considerably.
 
There are a few more pressing issues than adding color track strips to themes for me. Still here is hoping all the feature requests get implemented as time provides.


Scook,
 
Everyone has there "More Pressings Issues" in Sonar.  As for me there are some features that I ill never use in Sonar Platinum. However, for me and the Tungsten them, having the fully colored tracks and buses is one of those, "More Pressings Issues" for me.




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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 22:08:28 (permalink)
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Ok, tried Duckbar on the Tungsten theme..... No go, only works on Mercury. Still is my best option.

Unless something has changed, Duckbar works directly with the resource file. The resource file is the Mercury theme.
if one wants a Tungsten like theme using Duckbar, they would have to make all the mods in Duckbar. Because Duckbar is directly modifying Mercury, the full strip color option is available. The SONAR theme process works a different way. It does not directly modify the resource file.
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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/12 22:52:04 (permalink)
I understand that people want this, but personally, I like Tungsten the way it is and don't have a problem seeing the colours across the bottom.
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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/14 06:28:47 (permalink)
Why this keeps coming back to haunt us...
 
Duckbar will not make colored strips. And EXE Colors will not work at all with SPlat.
 
However.... there was talk a yr or so ago from Cakewalk about making colored strips happen with themes. The consensus was, it may or may not happen, any time soon.
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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/14 06:30:53 (permalink)
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The consensus was, it may or may not happen, any time soon.


So far so good.
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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/14 06:31:56 (permalink)
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I seem to be suffering from post going missing syndrome, so once again I feel compelled to add.......



Try waiting till the "draft saved" flag appears at the bottom of the window before clicking "submit" or "change" button. Seems to be working for me anyway.
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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/14 08:09:37 (permalink)
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The coloured bars work for me in tungsten. I can't think of anything worse than lurid, coloured strips ruining the dark interface. So while I hope you get what you want from the bakers, I also hope they make it an option so that it isn't imposed on those of us who don't want it. I kind of feel it is an option at the moment though depending which theme you choose.




I totally agree, I much prefer the 'clean cut' lines of the current tungsten theme. If there's a way to introduce a new theme with the option of coloured strips, then I guess we'd all be catered for.

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Re: Bakers, Are We Fixing The Tungsten Theme To Have Fully Colored Tracks? 2017/07/14 10:19:20 (permalink)
I believe there is a way to do this while pleasing both; users who don't want the colored strips and the others (People who like visual aid / like myself.) Rather than a colored strip, put a thin colored line around the whole track area.

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