Sorry for the long hiatus, but I've had to be out of town for a few days (and AFK), plus I didn't want to show my face around these parts again until I'd made some substantial progress on this 'project.'
So here we go! I worked, cussed, fooled, thought, prayed and finagled until I *FINALLY* figured out one *(hacky, cludgy, inelegant)* way to do what I wanted to... I copied the $:/core/ui/TopBar/menu Shadow Tiddler and made the following additions: *Original:* <$reveal state="$:/state/sidebar" type="nomatch" text="no"> <$button set="$:/state/sidebar" setTo="no" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/HideSideBar/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/HideSideBar/Caption}} class="tc-btn-invisible">{{$:/core/images/chevron-right}} *Inserted:* <$transclude tiddler="$:/_SBBG1"/> *Original:* </$button> </$reveal> <$reveal state="$:/state/sidebar" type="match" text="no"> <$button set="$:/state/sidebar" setTo="yes" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/ShowSideBar/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/ShowSideBar/Caption}} class="tc-btn-invisible">{{$:/core/images/chevron-left}} *Inserted:* <$transclude tiddler="$:/_SBBG2"/> *Original:* </$button> </$reveal> What this does is call in *$:/_SBBG1* <style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); }</style> (which contains the above style for the 'Black' background (@ 50% opacity) that you'll see when the TW is first loaded) whenever the SideBar is displayed, and; *$:/_SBBG2* <style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.0); }</style> (a 'White' background, but with its Alpha Channel *(the last number in the rgba)* also set to zero, essentially making it transparent) whenever the SideBar is hidden. Success! :) ==================== Now of course, me being me, I couldn't be satisfied with that - I had to carry it further and come up with yet another idea that I wasn't capable of bringing to fruition :Þ Until now. *well, almost, anyway…* *Let's have Multiple Colors for the SideBar Shade*!* (*with a nod to the 'Notification Shade' on Android devices :Þ) Knowing that my users will probably want to change things up from time to time (heck, I will, too!), I started thinking about how I could make it possible for them to change the color of the SideBar Shade. I attempted several different methods, but none of them worked, and then I stumbled upon some code for a totally unrelated project authored by *Matabele* (if I remember correctly), which used $radio buttons to make a choice and send the value of that choice to a macro or tiddler, etc. Well, after another two days of tinkering I figured out how to do this: <http://i.imgur.com/9dI5amC.jpg> You can see it in action on this page at TiddlySpot <http://zaphod2016.tiddlyspot.com/>. The HTML for the above is terribly long (if I actually use it, I'll create and use CSS classes which will greatly shorten the code), so I'll just extract one of the cells for exhibit here: <div style=" flex-grow: 1; background-color: silver;"> <div style="background-color: red; color: white; text-align: center; font- weight: bold;">Opacity : 50%</div> <$radio tiddler="$:/_SBBG1" field="text" value="<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); }</style>">''@@color:black;Black (default)@@''</$radio><br/> <$radio tiddler="$:/_SBBG1" field="text" value="<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(255,0,0,0.5); }</style> ">''@@color:red;Red@@''</$radio><br/> <$radio tiddler="$:/_SBBG1" field="text" value="<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5); }</style> ">''@@color:white;White@@''</$radio><br/> <$radio tiddler="$:/_SBBG1" field="text" value="<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(0,255,0,0.5); }</style> ">''@@color:green;Green@@''</$radio><br/> <$radio tiddler="$:/_SBBG1" field="text" value="<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(0,0,255,0.5); }</style> ">''@@color:blue;Blue@@''</$radio><br/> <$radio tiddler="$:/_SBBG1" field="text" value="<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(255,120,0,0.5); }</style> ">''@@color:orange;Orange@@''</$radio><br/> <$radio tiddler="$:/_SBBG1" field="text" value="<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(255,255,0,0.5); }</style> ">''@@color:yellow;Yellow@@''</$radio><br/> <$radio tiddler="$:/_SBBG1" field="text" value="<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(138,43,236,0.5); }</style> ">''@@color:purple;Purple@@''</$radio><br/> </div> Basically, I'm using one $radio button for each color, and immediately sending that to the *$:/_SBBG1* tiddler. I'm sure some of you know how to concatenate strings and could clean up the above mess to where it would be just one set of $radio checkboxes for the color, and then one for the opacity, with the result then sent to our *$:/_SBBG1*. I couldn't figure out which mechanism to use, nor the syntax to do it. I know it would be something like this: "<style>.tc-sidebar-scrollable { background-color: rgba(" + *valueof$radio1* + *valueof$radio2* + "); }</style>" I'd really like to create a tab within the ControlPanel to house this (like some do with Theme Tweaks) and either - use a set of $radio buttons (better than the above, hopefully :P) - or (optimally) if there were a color-picker that could configure and output *rgba* instead of just standard colors... Any ideas? --Zaphod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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