R6 UI colors aren't compatible/transferable to R7 BETA?

Asterisk · October 22, 2020, 5:17pm

R6 setup:

R7 BETA imported R6 appearance:

Are there any plans to match color values with R6? Maybe expand on UI colors controls?

We are ready to switch the whole department to R7 and this would be very, very desirable for us.

Also, I just setup makeshift UI, exported R7 BETA options and now when I’m trying to import the colors back its says:

It doesn’t like its own, natively created options file…
Found the culprit - for some reason Rhino writes blank here:

As soon as I enter some symbol there, options.ini becomes importable.

Asterisk · October 22, 2020, 5:57pm

This is no longer exposed in R7

Asterisk · October 22, 2020, 6:37pm

What controls this background color?

Found it, it’s this:

Mason · October 22, 2020, 6:44pm

@brian Is there any other threads that discuss this topic? I searched but i cant find any that discuss the UI coding changes. It appears to me, at least for what i have set up and begun to poke around, that the OPTIONS > Appearance > Colors > General > “Window Color 2” color pick is being used for more surface area in the 7/Beta build than was utilized in R6. Can you confirm?

Asterisk · October 23, 2020, 1:27pm

stevebaer · October 23, 2020, 3:20pm

@Asterisk have you modified your Windows operating system colors? The “Edit Text” dialog does not match the colors that I see when I set my Rhino to a darker set of custom colors.

Our goal for V7 is to have the UI to that can be docked to the main Rhino window be more consistent with respect to the UiPaintColor settings in Rhino’s settings system. Floating dialogs will not be addressed until the future. This is why we are specifically not advertising any support for a “dark mode” in V7. We are getting closer, but still have a long way to go.

All of the colors are controlled by the UiPaintColor settings that can be found in the advanced settings page in Rhino’s options.

I have a list of additional custom colors that have been requested, but I haven’t done so yet.
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-60648

Asterisk · October 23, 2020, 3:52pm

Yes, I’m using High Contrast Grayed out theme.

It’ll suck to not be able to read these:

Background color for these are inaccessible from anywhere from what I gather? And the text color is controlled by Windows?

stevebaer · October 23, 2020, 4:02pm

@Alain do you know if those controls are using the Operating System colors for background fill or are we just setting it to white?

Asterisk · October 23, 2020, 4:08pm

Is there a doc that describes what all of these control? I can’t find UI elements for about third of them. Don’t see a UI change anywhere when I change them.

R7:

R6:

The Active Tab is no longer highlighted unlike R6.

Asterisk · October 23, 2020, 4:13pm

Here’s the theme I’m using:
HighContrastGray.7z (722 Bytes)

[Theme]
; Windows - IDS_THEME_DISPLAYNAME_AERO
DisplayName=High Contrast Gray
ThemeId={30A4D7D0-E8D2-467C-BC88-C9A557F57D63}

[Control Panel\Desktop]
PicturePosition=4

[VisualStyles]
Path=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Themes\Aero\AeroLite.msstyles
ColorStyle=NormalColor
Size=NormalSize
AutoColorization=0
ColorizationColor=0X7F000000
VisualStyleVersion=10
HighContrast=3

[MasterThemeSelector]
MTSM=RJSPBS

[Control Panel\Colors]
ActiveBorder=45 45 45
ActiveTitle=45 45 45
AppWorkspace=45 45 45
Background=0 0 0
ButtonAlternateFace=200 200 200
ButtonDkShadow=15 15 15
ButtonFace=45 45 45
ButtonHilight=95 95 95
ButtonLight=35 35 35
ButtonShadow=75 75 75
ButtonText=250 250 250
GradientActiveTitle=195 195 195
GradientInactiveTitle=125 125 125
GrayText=125 125 125
Hilight=125 5 5
HilightText=255 255 255
HotTrackingColor=100 100 100
InactiveBorder=45 45 45
InactiveTitle=45 45 45
InactiveTitleText=200 200 200
InfoText=250 250 250
InfoWindow=45 45 45
Menu=45 45 45
MenuBar=75 75 75
MenuHilight=125 5 5
MenuText=250 250 250
Scrollbar=35 35 35
TitleText=250 250 250
Window=45 45 45
WindowFrame=15 15 15
WindowText=250 250 250

stevebaer · October 23, 2020, 4:16pm

The tabs in general have all been restyled to draw a border only around the active tab.

Many of the “non-obvious” colors in that list are specific to mouse interaction with respect to toolbar buttons.

Alain · October 23, 2020, 6:48pm

@stevebaer, by looking at the code, those custom controls (that JohnM made) wrap Eto controls and use different Eto.Drawing.SystemColors (maps to System.Windows.SystemColors on windows) for most states (Enabled, Disabled) and hard coded colors for other states (Red for invalid text)

stevebaer · October 23, 2020, 7:01pm

Can you tell if the background fill is using a hard coded color?

Asterisk · October 23, 2020, 8:03pm

The tab mouse over highlight is a nice touch in R7, but the active tab should keep the highlight color, so it’s clear at a glance what tab is active. R6 had it, now R7 only has a border outline that’s pronounced not nearly enough. Did people not like the active tab persistent highlight?

Asterisk · October 23, 2020, 8:15pm

So I just imported back Appearance from Options.ini exported earlier to fix the colors I broke and it imported default colors essentially making me re-setup the UI colors.

Is UI colors export broken in R7? Why is it exporting UserName blank?

stevebaer · October 23, 2020, 8:21pm

I’m not sure why it is exporting a UserName at all. I’ll make a bug for a developer to look at this. Are you using ExportOptions to make this ini file?

Asterisk · October 23, 2020, 8:22pm

Yes. It also just reset all options to default when I re-imported all options for the second time.
Here is the Options file:
R7 Options.ini (103.7 KB)

Asterisk · October 23, 2020, 8:27pm

I might know the issue - I was exporting options.ini to Google Drive folder and windows has issues writing stuff from other programs there or some such.

R6 has no issues in that regard though.

stevebaer · October 23, 2020, 8:42pm

Thanks; I reported the bug at https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-61132

brian · October 27, 2020, 10:46pm

RH-61132 is fixed in the latest BETA