Started working on a skin lately (see a very early preview here), and was wondering, whether in the MorphOS 2.0 skinning system the png images of the window border may have have full (8 bit alpha) transparency?

morphos20borderpreview.png

Anyone with information about that?

[ Edited by warface on 2007/12/1 12:17 ]

Oops... I misread the title to mean "MorphOS Dev Skinning System" and thought it was a bit extreme. Surely to tar and feather them would be enough.

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Finished the skin in the meantime. Actually it looks all right MorphOS 1.4.5 (see actual screenshot below) - given that your background is white

morphos20borderpreview2.png

very nice indeed! congrats :)

Also on a side note, is it possible to introduce an anchor based skin system in the far future?

(where for each image you can tell how to behave relative to their neighbors, so an image has a coordinate, two aligns where to anchor themselves (horizontal: left, right, left & right, vertical: up, down, up & down) and we could also tell them how to repeat or stretch themselves if their size is changing (size of course only changes in case of left&right or up&down anchored images))

I like it !
thnx

Another thing which is bothering me with the Mos skinning system is that you can't change the look / shape of the window scrollbars. Some time ago I tried to convert some of the OS4 skins to MorphOS but (at the moment anyway) it isn't possible with the current limitations of the skinning system. I hope that Mos 2 solves these issues 'cos I have a few skin projects of my own waiting to be finished...

@warface:

Hey, that's a pretty nice skin. As for 8 bit transparency, I cannot promise anything yet. There is no anchor based system, but there are subdirs in each skin for certain titlebar sizes that let you draw several versions of the skin. Intuition will then pick the neatest match.

@Pecosbil:

Yes, the scrollers are fully skinned on 2.0

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For this skin, 1 bit transparency would do almost as well. Funny thing, inside the skin the buttons seem to have 8 bit transparency working flawlessly, it's only when the window is rendered to the background that we seem to miss it.

Hope with the dawn of radeon hw acceleration we might break through this barrier Anyway, thanks for the answer. Some day it will surely come

[ Edited by warface on 2007/12/3 22:28 ]

I wonder if the "new" skinning system will allow defining of skin-specific pointer.prefs ?

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No. Pointers are independant from skinning. You will however be able to provide custom pointer sets.

Seems, we mean the same thing, but use different words. No matter how exactly it is done, what I'd like to see is having different pointers for screens that use different skins.

Nope, that's not supported.

It's a bit far fetched, but one nice day when the skinning system would receive a new overhaul, apart from an anchor based skinning system it could be even animated.

Just add a timeline, with preset named frames for the possible events and we may have a fully skinnable animated skin

So it doesn't make sense to wait for the next MOS releasse. Maybe this feature could be added as an commodity.
I wonder how can I find out (programmatically) which skin is used by the currently active screen ?