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HPBEME:

--- Quote from: Matt on May 18, 2024, 10:38:03 am ---I don't know why the code was using the tree background color but list text colors.  It seems like if it just used all the same it would work fine.

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I am pretty sure I made that exact point about the streaming page in a thread a year or so ago. Every view should use the list background color for the main content area so it is consistent across every MC view.

A potential issue however is the CloudPlay Header already uses the list background color (or at least that's what appears to be when I check multiple skins). That means this change would create a solid color throughout the CloudPlay view/page. Not the end of the world, but stylistically, some may prefer different colors for the header and main content areas, if for no other reason than to help visually segregate them.

That is why I suggested using the hex color specified for Background or BackgroundHeader in the <VIEWHEADER> section. This would provide guaranteed proper text/background contrast as it would already be accounted for in the rest of the skin' s design.

Coupling the new CloudPlay background color with the header color change I am proposing here will result in the header/content colors matching throughout every MC skin, which seems to me to be a desirable outcome.  The attached pictures show how the Playlist and CloudPlay page appearance do not match currently - these changes would fix that.

And while you're at it, maybe get rid of the oddball colors that are used for the New and Popular text links? Those colors conflict with every skins other text colors, so I'm not sure why that was done.  And really, why not turn those links into buttons instead, like you have for the genre options across the top?

Matt:
Here it is with Purity using the list background.

HPBEME:
It looks fine, but as predicted, the entire CloudPlay page is one solid color - no contrast for the CloudPlay Header area like it is now (or I guess before after this update). Maybe no one will care, but skins that don't use dark gray backgrounds might not look as good as this skin with one solid color.  Regardless, you can just go with it as-is and see if you get complaints that header is not a different color from the main content area any longer.

Any possibility of getting rid of the ugly purple New and yellow Popular text link colors?  Using those colors is such a bizarre choice and they clash with basically every skin.  Maybe the yellow text works for the Aruba skin, but that skin is seriously out-of-date looking and should be deprecated (along with a slew of others IMO).  The purple does not work with any skin.

JimH:
Matt,
I think we should back out these changes.  I believe the pages are generated on our Cloudplay server.

EnglishTiger:
Out of the 65 skins I tried it is only the Purity Skin that has a text/foreground contrast problem on the Cloudplay initial page, though there are a few that do have a visibility/contrast problem with the colour of the "New" and "Popular" links but that could be fixed by using the same text colour the "Listener Supported" and "Continue" links use; plus there are some skins, especially ones with white backgrounds, where there is a visibility problem with the "Cloud" image, something that could be cured by giving it a 1 pixel wide black border.

I agree with HPBME that the logical change to the Cloudplay initial page would be to use the ViewHeader colours for the top section and the List colours for the body section,
Like him I would like to see every view use the skins main.xml List colours but there is one problem, despite multiple requests  for "Display View" to be changed to using the main.xml List colours instead of Pure White Text on a Pure Black Background; a colour combination that no Standard View Skin uses in in the main.xml List section, that chnge has never happened.

N.B. There is a error on that initial page in this line - Cloudplay content is used to build Radio JRiver stations. Radio JRiver station buttons are to the right of the search window above - the "search window" it is referring is on a subsequent page, the only visible search bar/window on the initial page is the one in the player bar.


P.S. Although the Purity Skin used to be one of the skins that was installed when the user installs MC or an MC Update, it was removed from the list of Bundled Skins around the time the ModernCards Skins got added to that list.

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