Simple way to change colors in Ambient?
  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    BigGun
    Posts: 150 from 2004/6/18
    From: Nagold - Germany
    Hi

    I'm using Nescio as Ambient skin.
    I like is it because its looks clean and is not too bright.

    I would like to change to default background color of all applications. Currently its medium grey and the pen color is black.
    If searched in Ambient but unfortunately I could not find a prefs tool to change it.

    Can someone please be so kind and tell me how to change it?


    Thanks
    Gunnar
  • »21.06.04 - 18:15
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  • Just looking around
    Posts: 16 from 2003/5/16
    From: Britanny
    I'm glad you like the nescio skin. It was the first working skin for
    Morphos/Ambient :-D

    You can change the system colors by editing with a text editor the
    file 'skinconfig' in the skin directory. The colors are in hex values,
    wich means it needs an hex converter.

    Good luck!!! :-)
  • »21.06.04 - 19:13
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    BigGun
    Posts: 150 from 2004/6/18
    From: Nagold - Germany
    >You can change the system colors by editing with a text editor >the file 'skinconfig' in the skin directory

    Cool it works.
    Thanks Nowee!


    >The colors are in hex values, wich means it needs an hex converter.

    Hexcolors are no problem.
    I wrote enough asm demos to calc colors in my head ;-)


    Thanks
    Gunnar
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    BigGun
    Posts: 150 from 2004/6/18
    From: Nagold - Germany
    Hi Tokai,

    Nice skin. :)

    I think what really needs to be changed are the default
    scoll-icons and scroll-bars of mui.

    Voyager uses Ambient scroll bars but Ibrowse uses mui scroll bar. The mui scroller is really ugly. I wish I would know howto change mui scrollbar to look like Ambient bar.


    Gunnar
  • »21.06.04 - 20:02
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    BigGun
    Posts: 150 from 2004/6/18
    From: Nagold - Germany
    Newlook looks nice.
    But how can I set the color of of the scrollbar?
    My "newlook" bar has odd blue color of #5e84a6

    Is there an explanation or howto of the skin values?
    For example the icons (close/iconify/depth) of my windows
    are light grey for active window and yellow for inactive windows.
    I would like to swap these colors but can't find out how.
    Can you please advice me?

    Many thanks in advance
    Gunnar
  • »21.06.04 - 21:30
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  • Caterpillar
    Caterpillar
    Posts: 32 from 2004/5/27
    Sorry for this silly question...

    But HOW do you actually change Skin in Morphos?
    I managed to do it once at the very beginning, and now I just can't find the option anywhere!!!

    Cheers,
    JBB
  • »22.06.04 - 08:07
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    MarK
    Posts: 641 from 2004/1/25
    From: Prague, The Cz...
    It's simple, enter the screen mode settings window, doubleclick the ambient screen, and there are settings for screen resolution, depth and also the skin :-D

    Bye, MarK.
  • »22.06.04 - 08:27
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    jcmarcos
    Posts: 1178 from 2003/3/13
    From: Pinto, Madrid ...
    Quote:

    Quote:

    The colors are in hex values, wich means it needs an hex converter

    Hexcolors are no problem. I wrote enough asm demos to calc colors in my head ;-)

    Now that is an answer!

    See ya!
  • »22.06.04 - 10:55
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    MarK
    Posts: 641 from 2004/1/25
    From: Prague, The Cz...
    For a fast and simple (and quite comfortable) number conversion, try: NumConv. It's my old tool, that I made on Amiga many years ago, but I still use it, when I need it :-)

    Bye, MarK.
  • »22.06.04 - 11:05
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