I had spent hours trying to find out how to change these backgrounds colors...bakers; please let us know if this is possible...
 

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I am hopeful that one of the theme masters here will be able to figure out how/where we can edit the elements I am asking about.

I imagine that one set of elements may be part of the "inspector" while the other element may be something like "track view bus pane background".

Hi Un,
 
I'll try to check for you today (as I have some time), although I think you're on the right track with your guesses. They may be editable, particularly if they are color swatches (if you have the editor, you'll recognize what I talking about: the squares of color at the top of an edit category).

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Thank you, I hope you may find something I have missed in the theme editor choices.

I haven't tried combining a new theme with SONAR's preferences/colors but that will probably be part of my next attempt.

Well, you needn't have thanked me. I looked quite a bit, but came up short on both counts. There doesn't seem to be anything that is specifically labelled a name that could fit what we're looking for. It's really odd, almost like there's a hole in the editor at those points.
 
My guess is that particularly "the black stuff" at the bottom is a global setting; you might figure out what it is, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a number of other areas change color as well.
 
I'm very sorry that I haven't been more help. If I do find something out I'll let you know.
 
 

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Hi Dan,
 I am thankful that you actually took the time to look and help confirm that looking further may not be effective. Your efforts have been helpful.
 
 I currently have the following choices in my theme set with easy to spot colors to serve as indicators:
 
 Alternative Text #1 = bright green
 Master Control Bar Background = bright green
 Strip Background = bright pink
 Control Background = bright green
 Slider Background = bright green
 Track Inspector Background = bright orange
 Strip Selection = bright pink
 
 None of these colors seem to show up as I search through the actual SONAR interface for any evidence that they are actually making some effect on the GUIs appearance.
 
 My "Tracks View > Clip Pane Backgrounds" are set to the tan or beige color that is apparent but I can't find a "Tracks View > Bus Pane Background" to change the black to a similar shade of tan.
 
 Thank you.

This is where it is difficult to help: I'm not quite sure where you are expecting them to show up. Can you be more specific, rather, in just what you are trying to change? Even a screenshot with circles could do it (like you first did,  with comments if helpful).

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un
I am hopeful that one of the theme masters here will be able to figure out how/where we can edit the elements I am asking about.

I imagine that one set of elements may be part of the "inspector" while the other element may be something like "track view bus pane background".

Do you have me blocked or something?
 
Is this McQ?

Yep

Inspector & Track View.
 
Almost all areas of Sonar were editable with Duckbar prior to Splat. Since I don't have Splat or theme editor, I can't say if T.E. can do the same. IACOTO that until it can, I will remain with X3.
 
As a test, if there's a way to select all the colors within T.E., make them all the same (like pink, orange or yellow) and save that as a color set, open Sonar and see if those areas are changed. Switch back to default colors when done.

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