Winamp Tray Control Icon Pack v3.5.4 available, released 24-02-2019

[DrO]

all of the icon packs have been adjusted already in the installer and work correctly as expected in the testing i've done with it.

on a plus note i've fixed the transparency issue with the compact icon and have something else to do and that's rc6 on it's way (and hopefully the final rc build as well)

-daz

[DrO]

v2.0 RC 6

Changes:

• Fixed the setting of the current icon pack on the preferences to show it correctly (was part broken with the support change in rc5)
• Added onto the plugin info message about the use of pink (RGB 255,0,255) for transparency support in the compact icon's bitmap
• Reworked the compact icon creation so that it will now correctly generate (i hope) the transparent area as required

Hopefully that's it now as i can't find any other bugs and i want a final build now

-daz

[martin.deimos]

thanks!
when will v2.00 be released?

[DrO]

as soon as i've a full confirmation from osmosis and koopa that things are fine

-daz

[osmosis]

The white background i reported before is now present in both the default and my alpha transparent icp.

[DrO]

the default is meant to have the white background since it matches with the rest of the default icon pack. for the transparent area to work, the bitmap has to have pink for the areas that are required to be transparent.

the situation with the code before the change in rc6 was that i was manually setting the pink area to the system's current colur for all 3d objects which as a result meant i had to track another system message in order for the plugin to be able to know when to re-draw the compact icon.

the way it works now is to generate the icon correctly by adjusting the pink to black and generating the transparency mask which the OS then uses to know what it needs to draw or not ie the transparent areas. so without pink areas you'll never get proper transparency in the compact icon that's generated.

so the attached version should be transparent correctly as per your screenshots from above. hope all that makes some sense

-daz

[osmosis]

ah so only pink works now. no alpha. gotcha.
works excellently with the attached file. thanks.

[DrO]

i think it may have been more by chance that the alpha worked beforehand though it never seemed to work properly for me on my test XP install but with the changes in rc6 it now worked correctly with and without XP theming enabled which was the main aim.

so that now leaves koopa to give a response and then can do a recompile as 2.0

-daz

[osmosis]

so alpha *should* work now? then how come it wasn't working for me with my old "4way legacy" ?

[DrO]

if there's pink in the loaded bitmap then that will be transparent and that's it. i'm wondering if we're getting confused between what we mean by alpha and transparent.

as long as the one i posted above shows the black symbols over the top of the current them without pink/white/any other colour area that's not expected then it's working correctly

-daz

[osmosis]

yup, it's working correctly then.

alpha transparancy is an extra layer (a mask) in 32bit bitmaps that defines transparent areas (can do gradients and other such things as well). the pink transparancy you have implemented is generally known as 1-bit transparancy i believe.

[DrO]

k, i think we were getting slightly confused with it all (not helped that it's gone 1am here). yeah, it's 1-bit transparency that i've gone for or 'magic pink'. so yeah, just need koopa's verdict and i'm done, heh

-daz

[Koopa]

just need koopa's verdict and i'm done, heh

I've made intensive tests with the latest RC, all is working as expected and of course, you should recompile it as "Nullsoft Tray Control 2.0" Final as soon as possible.

Btw, the transparancy looks fine here, the "DrO" pack is pretty nice with the transparent compact mode.

Well done.

[Edit]Status update:

I've recompiled a new build of the installer. The installer is mostly finnished.

The list of the known issues/my todo list isn't large anymore.

• find better name for the "Icon Replacement" pack
• need volup.ico and voldown.ico for this pack
• maybe add new icon packs before we finally ship the installer.

[Koopa]

Martin:

if you want to create any new icon pack (eg. Vortex), you should do that as soon as possible.

Otherwise I'm done, I've just added some tweaks and fixed the last minor bugs.

I'll send DrO the 2.0 final within the next few days.

The icon pack will be released after a new Winamp version is aviable, wich contains the new Tray Control plug-in.

--
Koopa

[martin.deimos]

no, have no time atm!
can u send me the finished installer for testing?