[Clam-devel] Re: [pksampler-devel] CLAM and PK widgets

[David García Garzón]

On Dijous 12 Abril 2007, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> > I did some experiments by changing parameters such as colors and size of
> > buttons, and works pretty well. :-) I need to know how to crop them but i
> > am on the track.
>
> Right. I wrote a tool to do that a while ago, but it isn't in my
> repository anymore because I took a different direction with the
> widgets I have now. I could write it again in a day or less if I
> wasn't so busy... We release early june (hopefully) and this stuff
> would be fun to get back into then (no promises!)

Nice to know. If i need it before i think i could do it myself.

> > What i miss is some way of making the background transparent. Adding
> > pkwidgets to an interface forces you to use the widget background for all
> > the interface to avoid awkward aspect. By having an alpha background we
> > could remove this limitation. I spotted several interesting links:
> > http://www.imagico.de/pov/icons.html
> > http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/shadowtut/index.htm
>
> This was one of two major problems I never tackled.. I thought about
> using some sort of mask, but I'm not sure. The purest way would be to
> get povray to do it, but I haven't looked into it. If it isn't
> immediately possible using the povray docs, then a post to the povray
> mailing list and/or community forums would probably be worth it. If
> not, creating some sort of mask might be the way to go, but that would
> be difficult with the shadow.

Have you checked the links? Ok, you are in release ;-) i can just describe 
them, they explain how to do icons with alpha by doing 2 or 3 povray runs 
with different parameters. By doing that we could get some alpha shadowed 
backgrounds. I promise to get on that, well, if you don't before ;-)


> > > Keep me informed how your work goes. I'm glad to hear my code helped.
> >
> > At the moment i'll use the existing widgets and pixmaps and i'll extend
> > both as i need more. Our packaging must not to be changed for that.
> > Eventually i would like to integrate things further and porting other
> > widgets. So let's talk then. I'll keep you informed. Warn me also when
> > your release is over and lets chat a little.
>
> I may not remember (we are REALLY busy), so drop me another line if I
> don't get back to you. This is what we are working on:
> www.soundsonline.com.
>
> Are you doing anything commercially?

Not so, but we are currently seeking commercial projects involving CLAM. Here 
comercial does not mean non-free but we also are able to drop non 
relicenceable dependencies if non-free is a requirement.

Good luck with the release.

-- 
David García Garzón
(Work) dgarcia at iua dot upf anotherdot es
(Home) vokimon at telefonica adot net
http://www.iua.upf.edu/~dgarcia
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