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I have two png images that I would like to turn into fonts. Or better: I would like to have these images act like the fonts: make them negative for dark skins.
What trick should I use?Sorry, such feature is not implemented in the package.
Where you planning to use these images? which component?Not the easiest way, but you could trace your PNGs into SVGs using, for example, Inkscape and then convert those into font glyphs with an online tool for example.
Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001Sorry, such feature is not implemented in the package.
Where you planning to use these images? which component?The easiest would be if the TsImage would have a flag, saying “Act like a font” for black and white images. Not every icon is a character (see attachments), that’s why I ask this.
PS. Apparently it is not possible to remove erroneous attachments in edit.
To AlphaSkins: Could it be possible to use a png as a mask and colorize it with any color?
Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001My idea was that most of that work was already done in TsCharImageList. So, it would not be much work to replicate for a black and white picture.
Where you are planning to use these images? which component? TsImage? Or buttons? Or menus?
Anywhere where a TsCharImageList can be used as an image source. It probably would need a slightly modified version of the TsCharImageList where two-color images can be stored.
The TsCharImageList component allow to define any custom colors for stored characters.
The problem is that your glyph is not character and may be stored in the TsAlphaImageList or in other imagelists.
But they can’t change a color of the custom image. Also, it’s not vector graphic and you should store big sized glyphs for further scaling.. Maybe will be better to make own font with these glyphs saved as characters?I didn’t realize the big difference between characters, being vectors, and my icons, being bitmaps.
Still it is an interesting idea to have bitmaps that become negative on dark skins.Couldn’t you add a flag to a TsImage saying it should follow the skin. This would only work then on Black&White pictures.
Plz, specify, this property must fill all non-transparent pixels in the image by color from skin?
How such property may be named?No. Just do what you do for characters. They are black on light skins, but white on darker skins.
For TsImage do similar: an image can be transparent or not. If the image is transparent, the B&W logic only applies to the visible part. If the image is not transparent, the whole image goes negative for dark skins.
If the image is a png image apply the B&W logic on the non-transparent part only. In that way, pixels that are partly visible because of anti-aliasing will also be made negative on darker skins.
The property can be named HonorSkinTone.// If the image is not transparent, the whole image goes negative for dark skins.
Just white rectangle will be shown in darks skins in this case =)
If skin is dark, make the white parts black, make the black parts white and leave the transoarent parts untouched.
In Dutch that’s called a negative image, but the better term in English is inverted 😁
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