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[Kintsakis Mike]

ever since 22. 55 the Aruba skin keeps displaying the peak indicator in white instead of black and is very difficult to read
could you please fix it I paid for jr23 it has the same problem and I cannot upgrade.

I also posted a question on how to display this variable to the main window and did not get an answer.

[Kintsakis Mike]

BUMP

[Matt]

What do you mean by "peak indicator"?  I was looking in the DSP Studio, but I can't find anything wrong there.

Thanks.

[Awesome Donkey]

Screenshot please!

[Kintsakis Mike]

in the DSP window on the lower left corner one can select clip protection or flat line overflow. Under that there is a real time peak level reading that displays the % peak level. Prior to 22.0.55 in Aruba the displayed number were black in normal skin view and white in Inverted skin mode. Sometime after 22.0.55 this was reversed resulting in a low contrast display. I use more than 30 VST plugins
some of them more than once and it is imperative for me to keep an eye on this indicator and would greatly help me if i could display the associated variable on the main window somewhere along with the name, artist, album and other fields functions  variables etc.

Today I tried a temporary fix and it seems I was lucky and it worked.
I added a directory called "ArubaX22" to the skins directory that is a copy of the Aruba directory but has the main.xml file replaced with the main.xml file found in 22.0.55 with the only change being the title name. The attached picture is the high contrast alternative.

[Kintsakis Mike]

here is the low contrast alternative of the current Aruba skin

[Kintsakis Mike]

and here is the view menu for selecting either the current official Aruba skin or
the 22.0.55

[Matt]

Coming next build of MC23:
Changed: Switched the Aruba text colors in a lot of places from white to black.

Please let me know if it's fixed to your liking once the build goes public (in a week or so).

Thanks.

[Kintsakis Mike]

Thanks a lot for your help, I will let you know what I think as soon as I see the new Aruba.

The Aruba is a very nice and tasteful artistic design with colors that follow the color coordination rules of the great painter  Henry Emile Matisse.
In addition it is the easiest to use and read with all text, buttons, and separate areas clearly separated and with minimal use of separating lines that don't look good.

I do not see what could need to be changed other than the one I indicated.

I still need to know if there is a variable associated with the peak indicator that I
can add to the "Glass Window" at the top of the Main Standard View Window using
the "Customize display..." tool.

[Awesome Donkey]

If memory serves, I changed this when supporting the new/experimental tag window. I believe it was to workaround the issue of each section's font (e.g. General, File, Image, etc.) being too dark (on top of a dark image) so I changed it to a light color as a workaround/compromise.

Matt, you might want to check that one. Shame we can't change the font color for each section in the new tag window (yet, at least).

[Matt]

If memory serves, I changed this when supporting the new/experimental tag window. I believe it was to workaround the issue of each section's font (e.g. General, File, Image, etc.) being too dark (on top of a dark image) so I changed it to a light color as a workaround/compromise.

Matt, you might want to check that one. Shame we can't change the font color for each section in the new tag window (yet, at least).

I think I'll have that fixed.  You just need to set this in the skin:

<TAGWINDOW>
   <Colors Text="242303" Group="FFFFFF" />

The group color is the important one.

[Awesome Donkey]

Thumbs up!