Theming in Blackbox

[evulish]

Ok, so I've started making some pathetic little themes in BB to match my XMMS skin. It's ALMOST where I want it but the text and colors are too dark. I want rgb 0.255.0 rather than something like 0.100.0. I think it's because I'm using lots of black in it.
How would I just make it brighter?

If you want, I can post part of the theme hear.

[kozumo]

Sure post it! Are you using toolbox?
You can also try using gcolorsel to check the colours.

[evulish]

I made it from scratch (well, sorta, I kinda used a template from another one :) )

I like the color of the windows and stuff but the text is dreadful (especially if you have something bright near it!)

Here it is:

toolbar: Raised Solid Bevel1
toolbar.button: Flat Solid
toolbar.button.pressed: Sunken Diagonal Bevel1
toolbar.clock: Flat Rectangle Bevel1
toolbar.label: Flat rectangle Bevel1

toolbar*color: rgb:0/0/0
toolbar*colorTo: rgb:0/0/0
toolbar.button.pressed.color: rgb:0/255/0
toolbar.button.pressed.colorTo: rgb:0/255/0
toolbar.textColor: grey90

menu.title: flat diagonal
menu.frame: raised crossdiagonal

menu.title.color: rgb:0/255/0
menu.title.colorTo: rgb:0/255/0
menu.title.textColor: rgb:0/255/0
menu.frame.color: rgb:0/0/0
menu.frame.colorTo: rgb:0/0/0
menu.frame.textColor: rgb:0/255/0
menu.frame.highlightColor: grey90
menu.frame.hiTextColor: grey30
menu.bulletPosition: right
menu.bulletStyle: triangle

window.focus: raised interlaced rectangle gradient bevel1
window.focus.button: flat interlaced rectangle gradient

window.focus*color: rgb:0/0/0
window.focus*colorTo: rgb:0/255/0
window.focus.textColor: grey

window.unfocus: flat rectangle gradient bevel1
window.unfocus.button: flat rectangle gradient

window.unfocus*color: rgb:0/255/0
window.unfocus*colorTo: rgb:0/0/0
window.unfocus.textColor: grey

window.button.pressed: sunken diagonal interlaced gradient bevel1
window.frame: raised solid bevel1

window.button.pressed.color: rgb:0/255/0
window.button.pressed.colorTo: rgb:0/255/0
window.frame.color: rgb:0/0/0

borderColor: rgb:0/0/0

titleFont: lucidasans-10,-*-medium-r-*--14-*,*
menuFont: lucidasans-10,-*-medium-r-*--14-*,*

bevelWidth: 2
borderWidth: 0
handleWidth: 4

moveStyle: opaque

titleJustify: center
menuJustify: left

! rootCommand: bsetroot -mod 4 4 -bg rgb:0/255/0 -fg rgb:0/255/0
rootCommand: bsetroot -solid black

[evulish]

I'd also appreciate it if you could describe what some of them are (or point me to a website) I can understand the obvious ones but the colorTo things I don't really understand...

[binary_boy]

Have you seen this page?

http://bb.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=25&secid=6.0

It explains things pretty well.

[Rob 'Feztaa' Park]

I don't have any experience theming BB, but I do have tons of experience with rgb color codes...

if you want to make it brighter, increase the 0 values equally...

for instance,

0.255.0 will be a bright, lime green, but 127.255.127 will be a softer, lighter (brighter) green.

[kozumo]

evulish: sorry for not replying sooner, unfortunately, I'm not in Linux right now so I can't check out yer theme, but use toolbox if you need to know what all of them do.
apt-get install toolbox will do if you have Debian. If you have an rpm-based distro, you can also find an rpm for it somewhere. It uses Qt though.

Also if you want to know what some of them do, just man blackbox. Everything is there. Sorry if I'm telling you to RTFM, but it's really really simple. Check it out!

Hope it helps ;)
- koz

P.S. Just a by the way...colorTo is the colour that is changed to...for example for gradient effect, it goes from let's say blue to the colour black

[ 14 July 2001: Message edited by: kozumo ]

[forrest]

http://truffula.net/~forrest/computers.shtml

you could take a look at some of mine, i've got a tarball of all of them on my projects/stuff page (link on the left). basicaly looking at examples i think helps.