Sharing Skins for Rebuilder

[geffroman]

Unless someone tells me this is a problem, I am going to host skins for DVD Rebuilder users... We have a small gallery of video clips we have hosted for about a year that has been pretty popular... It gives people a place to download and share these clips... Seems DVD Rebuilder skins would be fun as well...

I'll put up a page at posunplugged.com/rbskins (http://posunplugged.com/rbskins) in a couple days... Just check back at this link to see when it's up and feel free to send in skins you would like hosted... all FREE of course...

I do have a question about changing colors for the Prepare, Encode, Rebuild and Transcode buttons... Does anyone know how I can convert simple RGB values to the required values? I'm just guessing right now to get the button color I want and I haven't a clue how to define the button TEXT COLOR.

UPDATE: The following skin is now available HERE (http://posunplugged.com/rbskins)

http://posunplugged.com/dvdrb/rb_gui_red.gif

This is just a simple modification to the standard Rockas Blue interface. It is geared to those that use BATCH and longer path locations.

[MaxT]

http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=23

And about converting RGB values. I don't know what you need as output (HEX, CMYK or so), but Maybe Adobe Photoshop can help you. :)

[jdobbs]

The values are 32 bit representations of RGB. You can add them as hexadecimal, each byte represents intensity of a color:

Color=&HF02233&

In this example Red= 0x33, Green= 0x22, and Blue= 0xF0

Bright white is &HFFFFFF&
Black is &H0&
Bright Red is &FF&, Bright Blue &FF0000&, etc...

You can also use decimal numbers but it will be hard to tell where the division of bytes is...

[MaxT]

That's kinda pain in the ass to use it in that way with hexidecimal. Really confuses people like me (I don't code in c++/vb/etc, I hate math, but I love designing stuff).

This is one of the cases why I still haven't started on my skin for DVD RB. I just not sure at all about that TXT file that should follow with the skin (and no, I wont install any VB (which costs money) just to make it easier (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89506)). :/

[jdobbs]

Hey, blame Microsoft, not me. That's the way it's stored.

[MaxT]

Would it be possible for me to make a skin (PSD/JPG/PNG/Whatever) and then just upload it somewhere so someone who understand that TXT layout could make the txt for the skin? :/

[Rockas]

@MaxT

I don't mind doing that for you just send them to me I can host them at www.dvdrebuilder.com, too :)

[MaxT]

wooo, nice, I'll start on it tomorrow :D

[geffroman]

Originally posted by jdobbs
The values are 32 bit representations of RGB. You can add them as hexidecimal, each byte represents intensity of a color:

Color=&HF02233&

In this example Red= 0x33, Green= 0x22, and Blue= 0xF0

Bright white is &HFFFFFF&
Black is &H0&
Bright Red is &FF&, Bright Blue &FF0000&, etc...

You can also use decimal numbers but it will be hard to tell where the division of bytes is... OK... I am still confused... Maybe a little more help.... In your example there are 7 alphanumeric values... red green and blue make up 6 of the 7 digits... what does the first digit "H" represent?

And how is the color of the TEXT in the button altered?

Thanks jdobbs...

[jdobbs]

The "H" indicates hexadecimal notation. The color of the text can't be set.

[geffroman]

OK... Got it... Thanks jdobbs...

I think I'll also publish a basic color chart for folks to choose from with the appropriate alphanumeric equivilent... Should make it a lot easier for all of us to select button colors...

One last thing though... Can TEXT color on those buttons be changed? or are we stuck with black?

[MaxT]

uhm... did my post #2 was totally ignored? I posted link to a place where all skins are already hosted, do we really need a copy of that? :p Just wondering...

[sPeziFisH]

Originally posted by geffroman
I think I'll also publish a basic color chart for folks to choose from with the appropriate alphanumeric equivilent... Should make it a lot easier for all of us to select button colors

Some color-picker-tools are able to give you the Hex-representation/notation of the choosed color, for instance XDrop (http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7027)

Maybe you have to invert the order of RGB (to BGR), at least a look at jdobbs example seams to tell this is neccessary.
I guess &H000000& instead of &H0& as black is valid.

[wmansir]

Originally posted by MaxT
uhm... did my post #2 was totally ignored? I posted link to a place where all skins are already hosted, do we really need a copy of that? :p Just wondering...
It's always good to have a backup. No offense to anyone hosting, but sites go down all the time, either temporarily or permanently. Especially free or hobby sites.

[Rockas]

@geffroman
And how is the color of the TEXT in the button altered?


No... they can't... the only way to do that is to create a graphic (image) and make it as a button.

[MaxT]

Originally posted by wmansir
It's always good to have a backup. No offense to anyone hosting, but sites go down all the time, either temporarily or permanently. Especially free or hobby sites.
Valid point :)

[geffroman]

Originally posted by Rockas
@geffroman


No... they can't... the only way to do that is to create a graphic (image) and make it as a button. That brings up another question... How come those four buttons are not graphics based so we can handle them like all others...? I assume it's because they occupy the same space depending on condition of ONE Click Option...

Any thoughts on maybe making a change to the program to accommodate graphics based buttons throughout?

[Rockas]

That will be a jdobbs' call :)

[DataPeople]

Hi Geffroman,
Just check the url for converting simple RGB values. I think you find useful information what u looking for...

http://www.javascripter.net/faq/rgbtohex.htm

-DataPeople

[Ch3vr0n]

LOL nice thread necromancy for a complete newbie. Digs up a 5.5 year old post :D