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Customisable buttons toolbar
The customizable buttons toolbar will be the replacement for the default playback buttons toolbar in Columns UI.
Notes:
- The size of each button is currently calculated from the bitmap of the first button. If the size of other bitmaps does not match, currently they will fail to load.
- PNG images are not currently supported.
- Mouseover images are not currently supported.
Changelog
final
- added PNG support
- added mouse over image support
- other changes/fixes
- broke compatibility
- added tool to set colour to use for genreating mask of all buttons
- Command picker for context/main menu items.
- Fcb packager
- etc
Configuration
Command
The command that will be executed when this button is clicked. Click 'Change' to change this.
Display
Image
Only the button image is displayed.
Image and selective text
The button image and text is displayed when selective text is enabled.
Selective text
No image is displayed; selective text is displayed when selective text is enabled.
Normal and hot tabs
The active tab refers to the image you are modifying. The hot image is displayed on mouseover; the normal image is displayed otherwise.
Image
Default
The default bitmap will be used for this command. Note that default bitmaps do not exist for all commands. For the hot image, this refers to the normal image.
Custom
A custom bitmap will be used.
Mask Type
The mask is used to specify which areas of the toolbar's bitmap will be transparent.
None
Select this if you do not wish to have any transparent areas, or are running Common Controls version 6 and wish to use a 32bpp bitmap with an alpha layer.
Bitmap
Select this option if you wish to use a bitmap as a mask. The bitmap should be a monochrome 1bpp bitmap, and will be downsampled if not.
Colour
Select this option if you wish to generate a mask from the area of the bitmap that is a particular colour. The colour you specify will be made transparent.
Path
If you are using a custom image, this specifies the path to that image. Relative paths are accepted.
Mask path
If using a mask generated from a file, enter its path here.
Mask colour
If using a mask generated from a color, select the colour here.
Use custom text
Specifies that if text is displayed for this button, use this text string as opposed to the name of the command.
Text location
Selective text on the right
Displays selective text to the right of the image, for buttons with selective text enabled.
Below
Displays text in all buttons, below the image.
Appearance
Normal
Normal appearance.
Flat
Flat appearance.
No edges
Displays buttons with no padding or borders. Note: selective text is not displayed in this mode