Norfolk_boy

I've noticed a lack of anyone from SI on this forum recently but I'm hoping someone still stops by on occasion (I know FM Live is of more importance atm).

Few thing's I really could do with some help on:

1.http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/420106/m/2422029613?r=9682092813#9682092813

2. Is there any way to alter the text colour on drop down menus other than in colours.xml? I don't want to change the colour of button/popup text which changing 'menu' seems to also do. The 'Menu' colour in colours.xml doesn't seem to affect the text colour of menus in 'match controls' anyway.

3. Is there any way to alter how a base class operates? The classes folder is very useful in globally changing stuff all at once but I'm limited to sub classes inheriting from main ones. Can I alter classes like 'action_button' that 'action_button_blue' inherits from?

Fingers crossed someone is around this time. :thup:

Norfolk_boy

I hate to bump but I could really do with some help here.

Norfolk_boy

Also, can I add a menu_appearance to a modal_menu?

I've tried adding:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> &lt;flags id="menu_appearance" value="menu/mystyle"/&gt; </pre>

Within the code itself and also creating a new class (where it inherits modal_menu and then gets a menu_appearance flag). Neither worked although it works with other things (header popups for instance).

retired_kirkstar

In answer to your second question.

Is it possible for you too do something like this;

In the <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> colours.xml </pre> file add
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">&lt;colour name="mycolourname" red="206" green="12" blue="65"/&gt;</pre>

then

for the dropdown in question, as an example,the dropdown in the '/panels/database selection.xml'

add the colour to the code, like this;

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">&lt;widget class="label" text="Database[COMMENT: database selection dialog, label for the popup menu]" /&gt;&lt;widget class="popup_button_blue" id="dbpb" auto_size="vertical" select_event="dbse" colour="mycolourname"/&gt; </pre>

Make sense?

retired_kirkstar

The <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> mycolourname </pre> should have been mycolourname in bold, not with B's in brackets.

I'll shut up now

Norfolk_boy

If only it was that easy

The text colour on menus is changed already in colours.xml with 'menu'. But for some daft reason 'menu' is also the button/popup text colour. I want white button text and black menu. Adding colour=" " changes the popup text colour (in most cases, some don't want to like subtle popups) but does nothing ot the menu colour.

The modal menu in match controls.xml also seems NOT to be linked to 'menu' - it actually would change with colour="x". But then I want white text for the modal menu and black text on the actual menu list. colour=" x " puts them both the same colour.

After a few years at skinning you'll realise it's always as complicated as it could possibly be and never as simple as it seems.