PyRadio AM Theme

[amski1]

A little theme I spent some time creating.

AM.zip

[s-n-g]

Nice one!

Renamed it to "AM_by_amski1", hope you don't mind.
Will be included in the next release

Here it is with Calculated color = 0.02

[amski1]

Don't mind at all. I'd be honored.

What's a "calculated color"?

The dark green looks slightly different on Windows than it does on Linux, but I guess it depends on the monitor's color profile...

[s-n-g]

Don't mind at all. I'd be honored.

All mine!
Thank you for contributing! :)

What's a "calculated color"?

It's this config setting...

The dark green looks slightly different on Windows than it does on Linux, but I guess it depends on the monitor's color profile...

Yes...
That sounds right 😉

[amski1]

I see. I left the house, but when I'm back I'll check what's on my side. If the calculated color occurs or not.

It appears easy, but in reality it's pretty hard to pick a good set of colors. I started making the theme and then it hit me... oh, this will take a while 😂

[s-n-g]

😂
I know, playing with colors is so fun!

You can make all the changes you think necessary, even after it has been released, we can still update it in a future release

BTW, why don't you experiment with transparency as well?

# Theme Transparency
# Values are:
#   0: No transparency (default)
#   1: Theme is transparent
#   2: Obey config setting
transparency        0

Setting transparency to 2, and pressing "T" will enable it...
I think a "dark" theme (like yours) would look good with transparency ON

[amski1]

I think that on Windows it's not possible to get transparency in CMD (just checked, it goes to black). Would have to go with the new terminal, which seems... heavy to say the least.

If it's required then I'll do it. Don't mind it.

[s-n-g]

This is on Window 11, Powershell (transparency set to 85%, pressing "T", after changing transparency to 2 in the theme)

win11-transparency.mp4

And here's the settings

You will get similar result on *Windows 10 with Powershell.

Looking into Windows7 as well

[amski1]

True, works good on PowerShell

[s-n-g]

Have you enabled transparency then?
You are on 10 or 11?
No need to look for a Windows 7 solution?

[amski1]

W10. Yes, on PowerShell and it looks fine with the theme set to 2. When you hold CTRL, SHIFT and scroll the mouse wheel, the transparency changes on the fly.

[s-n-g]

Things are a bit different on linux and mac though

With Powershell on windows, you get the transparency because of the window transparency, without having to press "T".

If you do press "T" on Windows, you will see what a linux (or mac) user will see when transparency is no (well, almost). Do you still think it's ok?

Watch the video above to see what I mean 😉

Or just open pyradio in CMD and press "T", same effect (pyradio's background color dissapears)

[amski1]

I know. It doesn't honor transparency with T, becomes black. Transparency in CMD and PowerShell on W10 seems to be adjustable on the system GUI level, separate from what's drawn inside the command prompt.

[amski1]

How it looks on my end:

vsdc-sr.2023-09-23.11-47-41.mp4

[amski1]

Is it possible to have the now-playing station in bold font?

[s-n-g]

Is it possible to have the now-playing station in bold font?

No, not at the moment, and I think it may be too complicated to achieve (not all terminals support bold, I think)
I will have to look into it...

[s-n-g]

The theme is part of Version 0.9.2.14
Thanks for the contribution!
Closing...

[amski1]

😍

[amski1]

I apologize to post within this old thread, but I'd rather avoid opening a new one. Please see if this theme is worthy of anything. I called it λambda (Lambda).

λambda.zip

[s-n-g]

That is very nice!

I have modified it a bit, added a bit of darker background for the secondary windows.
What do you think?
Can I keep this modification?

This is obviously a mockup...

Also, regardless of the change above, can we rename it to lambda_by_amski1?
I would like to have ascii only in items bundled withing the package

[amski1]

Yes, absolutely. Cool gif, by the way.

How do I get the timer like you have here?

[s-n-g]

This is still under development, you will get it when the next release is out 😉

[amski1]

Wonderful. Props to whoever came up with it.

[s-n-g]

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[amski1]

😄