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Mach4 Screenset Customisation Question - Sliders
« on: January 26, 2016, 06:55:54 PM »
I have a custom mach3 screenset.... basically a black screenset with green text, nice and easy to see in the garage / workshop, extract below. (for a plasma)

I have started to fiddle with a plasma screenset in Mach4 (not my creation...) and also tried to make the background black... unfortunately the sliders seem to have a white background behind the green text.... any suggestions on how to get rid of this?

The LED's seem to have a white ghosting about them (the circular ones seem to be particularly distorted hence have gone for the rectangular ones although they still have a partial white border.

Also text setting.... is there anyway to make the text bold (I get \n = newline).... just wondering about the contrast / definition seemed a better visual in Mach3 somehow...

thanks
Rob

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Re: Mach4 Screenset Customisation Question - Sliders
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2016, 04:37:44 AM »
Unfortunately I never found a way of changing the foreground colour within the screen editor or with any external wxform builders, i may be wrong but I came to the conclusion that wxlua/wxwidgets was using the system colours for sliders and other controls so it could use the windows themes.

Again the leds are a very hit n miss thing - every now and then even during normal running the background of these can turn white, unfortunately this is not a mach4 coding error, it is somewhere between wxwidgets or wxlua Z height control.

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Re: Mach4 Screenset Customisation Question - Sliders
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2016, 04:43:29 AM »
Thanks Daz, maybe someone from NFS will pick up as a minor bug (if it can be fixed) or provide a comment.

I was going to try to have a fiddle with fonts as it appears lua does not really do bold... But if you change the font to bold looking font, problem solved.

More reading and learning to do...
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