Enable the Use checkerboard pattern as background option.
Change the first color to...
Red: 255
Green: 255
Blue: 255
Alpha channel: 0
Change the second color to...
Red: 255
Green: 255
Blue: 255
Alpha channel: 128
Leave the Options dialog by clicking OK to save the settings.
This is what I get:
Now change the Background color to...
Red: 0
Green: 255
Blue: 0
Alpha channel: 255
This is what I get:
So far, so good.
But when you enter the color picker for one of the checkerboard background colors again, the value for Alpha channel is 255 (it should be 0 and 128).
This is how %AppData%\XnViewMP\xnview.ini should look like:
• I see now, however I think that the issue doesn't matter a lot finally since the “old” INI entries -that I'd set "by hand" in an old version- work perfectly and are kept through the versions…
- IMHO, the alpha channel is totally useless to define the colours of the chequered pattern… I think that it might be greyed out when the palette is used in this dalogue…
- What do you think ?
KR
Claude
Clo
Old user ON SELECTIVE STRIKE till further notice •
I agree that the alpha channel is redundant (or even confusing) under most circumstances, except for the checkerbord background and Background color in Tools » Settings... » View » Info, because these two can act as (translucent) layers over other subjacent backgrounds.
We have infoOpacity for infoBackColor.
Maybe it's a good idea to remove the Alpha channel setting from the color picker all together and add a checkBoardOpacity1/checkBoardOpacity2 for checkerColor1/checkerColor2 instead?