well if they could some how program a way to let us place a transparent color image in the selection dotted area, that would stretch with the size of the dot's then those dots would become less noticable and we could get another image to make for the skin.

or maybe if petrcbr could get it to allow us to use the hex code in the theme engine to make it use a color filter instead of the dotted lines.

An other user have complain about the look of the dotted line which indicates what 'cell' you clicked on.
In this thread

nope.. not what we're talking about...
we're talking about the dotted line which indicates what 'cell' you clicked on

ya'll talkin bout the plus minus sign's on the end of the dotted lines to make the nodes expand? they can be changed. make 16 x 16 images and put them in the icon folder in your skin. i have them in the folder called

treeminus.bmp and treeplus.bmp but they are the 16 x 16 size




oh i see your talking about the shell's selection dotted line that shows what cell in the table you have selected.
i don't think that is skinner item it must be in the shell code that it has to be changed.

it don't bother me,

awesome!

DaledeSilva wrote:me too!

I just posted in the skinning functionality wishlist.
So that Nohitter can put it there if he wants.

me too!

nohitter151 wrote:

DaledeSilva wrote:good point about hitting F2.. hadn't considered that as I never do it.
So that's a reason for disagree with point 1 - though I think it should be skinnable (is it?)

I'm curious why you disagree with 3 though.

It isn't skinnable.

I wish the dotted selection rectangle could be skinnable.

In all honesty, I do. The fact that the single track selections above have a rounded look and different color, then not far from it you have an entire album selected and the tracks appear flat and a different color just doesn't really look right to me.

I can understand that some skins could not look right, that's why I suggested the solution above to enabled both options according to the skinner.

but do you actually think my version above looks tacky? - I think it looks neater and cleaner - and easier to interpret.

On further thought, I can't really see a need for #2 either. I think it would look odd if the selection of a single track and a full album looked different. I'm not talking about how the Album Details area is highlighted when you select a whole album, but how the Track Rows would look different. It would look a little tacky in my opinion.

yes.. I understand that.. that's why I'm making this post.. because I think it looks visually cleaner and I think the devs should make it work that way (I understand the skinners can't).

I think the most versatile option would be to have a different object in the skin to do a track line for "displaying over a selected album" verses a normal trackline.

this means both would remain possible and some skinners could set the one over an album as transparent.

thanks,
Dale.

DaledeSilva wrote:the track selections shouldn't show unless not all of the album is selected.

Ah OK. Could be. But with the skin you present, it's actually impossible to do because of the gradient background color.
Each track line would need to have a different selection color to match the background:

Eyal wrote:

DaledeSilva wrote:2. - notice how tracks are shown as selected individually even when in a fully selected album

This is not true. You can tell if it's a fully selected album if the selection backround color extendeds to Album Art and Artist/Album.

I'm not saying you can't "tell" it's a selected album...
I'm simply saying that the album selection is enough to tell - the track selections shouldn't show unless not all of the album is selected.

DaledeSilva wrote:2. - notice how tracks are shown as selected individually even when in a fully selected album

This is not true. You can tell if it's a fully selected album if the selection backround color extendeds to Album Art and Artist/Album.