Ugly buttons when I compile the IDE (Linux)

[rchastain]

Hello Fred and other!

I downloaded the latest state of the repository and compiled the IDE, under Linux with FPC 3.2.2.

The buttons of the main IDE window are not displayed correctly.

Here is the script I used to compile:

fpc -omseide \
-Fu../../lib/common/* \
-Fu../../lib/common/kernel \
-Fi../../lib/common/kernel \
-Fu../../lib/common/kernel/linux \
-Fu../../lib/addon/* \
-Fi../../lib/addon/* \
-Xg -l -Mobjfpc -Sh -Fcutf8 -gl -O- mseide.pas \
&>> mseide5-build.log

[fredvs]

Hello Roland.

Are you talking about the buttons of the debugger, like in your picture?

If so, hum, well, indeed the picture are a few changed. This because the original images used bmo_colormask filter that is not compatible for MacOS and NetBSD. [EDIT] Wayland also cannot deal with graymask and colormask.

So I updated the original images and removed the colormask.

Did you prefer the originals (that, imho, are not wonderful) ?

If you dont like the new, I can deal with 2 pictures, one without colormask for MacOS and NetBSD and a other with colormask for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows. (but it needs some work).

[fredvs]

Here are the original buttons with colormask:

[fredvs]

And a other option is to use BGRABitmap for all bitmap things. In this case no problem with gray_mask or stretching who work perfectly on all MSEgui OSes (Linux-X11, Linux-XWayland, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and MacOs-XQuartz.)

But this is a other adventure.

[fredvs]

The icons of button are here: https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/tree/main/icons/buttons

You will see that each image has a equivalent without colormask ( with a "2" added for file name ) and this images were used instead of those with colormask.

I dont really understand how that gray/color_mask works, it seems to be a MSE exclusive feature.

Voilà j'ai tout dit!

[rchastain]

Thank you for the informations, Fred.

[fredvs]

OK, I have choose option with 2 image-lists: one with colormask, like the original and one without mask for NetBSD and Darwin.

At loading, for Linux, Windows, OpenBSD and FreeBSD the images-list with colormask enabled will be used. And for Darwin and NetBSD the images-list without mask.

You may test it with last commit: https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/commit/20c87e7b923850c1becba4eebf115b87d9699f16

[graemeg]

On the original message, it looks like the alpha-blending is disabled. Hence the harsh black shadows. I don't know what would cause that though. :thinking:

[rchastain]

OK, Fred. Problem solved here on Linux.

[fredvs]

On the original message, it looks like the alpha-blending is disabled. Hence the harsh black shadows. I don't know what would cause that though. 🤔

In the original message, the icons dont have the gray shadows, I have edited the original image-png with Gimp and removed the shadows and the option color_masked set to disable. This because on XWayland, NetBSD and Darwin-XQuartz, when the option color_masked is enabled, the image is not rendered. And disable the option color_masked gives a ugly black shadow.

But it was sad for the others, Linux-X11, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows who can deal with those masks. So now there are 2 images-lists, one with colormask enabled and with all the shadows and one with colormask disabled and without any shadows.

So thanks Roland to note it.

[fredvs]

And a other option is to use BGRABitmap for all bitmap things. In this case no problem with gray_mask or stretching who work perfectly on all MSEgui OSes (Linux-X11, Linux-XWayland, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and MacOs-XQuartz.)

But this is a other adventure.

Yes, BGRABitmap is the panacea, in the project StrumPract all images/bitmaps are rendered by BGRABitmap now. Perfect, even on XWayland, NetBSD and MasOS-XQuartz, all images are perfectly rendered, with stretching and without those mse-gray/color mask limitation. Many, many and re-many thanks to Johann ELSASS to make msegui compatible with that fantastic library.