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Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
Working on this theme. Two boxes , and a text field I'm struggling to locate 
post edited by Kamikaze - 2016/08/01 07:15:48
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Kamikaze
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 07:35:37
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It's a shame, part of my reasoning with messing with the Mercury Theme, was to keep the Track an Channel colors options. It seems it's not available to an edited Mercury theme.
I hope they are working in a different solution to what was in Mercury, hence the delay
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 07:57:50
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looks fun - will host and share it in the software forum sticky thread when your happy with it...
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 08:20:57
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It was going to be red and yellow. But the blue in Mercury was easier to convert the green, so went with. Jeez, it's a mission.
Just those two problems to resolve and some handful of some handfuls of PNG too finish, and I'll let you know.
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 12:49:03
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Would look great if i had a Nord synth! :D
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 12:56:46
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I kind of like it. But It's mot really me enough to choose it.
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 14:46:39
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To reduce the number of possibilities, I load Tungsten into the theme editor and look at only the modified entries. The filters are on the theme editor view tab.
Sometimes you can get lucky by searching for the name. This works in the case of the "Add Track" buttons especially when looking at only modified entries. There are two "Add Track button" images in the Track View > Add Track Flyout.
The track control list drop is a little harder to find. I looked at modified images with more than 2 states in the Track view. I knew it was an image with more than 2 states because the menu changes color when the mouse hovers over it. I found it in Track View > Track Pane and it goes by the unfortunate name of "Edit Filter."
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 15:55:37
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I know it's been said before, but, in my opinion, it is extremely disappointing that you can't create an edited version of the mercury theme without disabling the track strip colors. This is a major oversight. It's just too difficult for me to work on medium to large projects using any theme other than one with full track colors. So, I am forced to use the mercury theme with no chance of editing it. I hope this changes in future updates. It was the only reason I was excited about getting a theme editor. Still love using Sonar, however!
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 17:19:58
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I have to say, the best color scheme would be to get the windows and main areas to be light, like Mercury... all the black bothers me after a while... BUT i like the Tungsten buttons better.
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 20:53:25
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Modifying Mercury removing strip colours must be an oversight. At the moment Theme Editor is very much a Beta product. So much is still wrong. I hope they are working hard on this.
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 23:06:58
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scook
To reduce the number of possibilities, I load Tungsten into the theme editor and look at only the modified entries. The filters are on the theme editor view tab.
Sometimes you can get lucky by searching for the name. This works in the case of the "Add Track" buttons especially when looking at only modified entries. There are two "Add Track button" images in the Track View > Add Track Flyout.
The track control list drop is a little harder to find. I looked at modified images with more than 2 states in the Track view. I knew it was an image with more than 2 states because the menu changes color when the mouse hovers over it. I found it in Track View > Track Pane and it goes by the unfortunate name of "Edit Filter."
Thanks Scook. That's got one of them, and given me a a better idea of finding the other. Unfortunately since returning to Mercury, when I look at my Red scheme I can see I lost some of the transparent layers, meaning I gained lots of white borders, so I need to go back through everything again.
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 23:16:48
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Make sure to use an image editor which supports transparent backgrounds like Paint.net (not MS Paint) or GIMP
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/01 23:38:10
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Yeah I did, I was adding a layer, then colour burning to keep the texture. It was when I was merging the layers it seems I lost the transparent layer. Dumb mistake, I use transparencies for work a lot. I use Sketchbook Pro
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Re: Mad Hatter's Mercury Red Theme - A few little hurdles
2016/08/02 00:12:33
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zoffmeister
Modifying Mercury removing strip colours must be an oversight. At the moment Theme Editor is very much a Beta product. So much is still wrong. I hope they are working hard on this.
I'm not sure. The tracks after the end tab have track colour show under a translucent gray. In the theme editor, maybe there was an issue having it have a transparent layer to edit. With Tungsten this would have been really dark, so may not have been very functional. Editing yesterday made me realise why you couldn't simply have a a fader to turn up or down the darkness of the of the background, as the buttons are in a different form. I think they could have implinted say 6 different values of light and darkness, so you could step through them. Maybe with two or three options of highlighted button colours along with it.
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