I've been wondering since the buttons on our screen (iDev) changes colors from green to blue depending on the season, what if we can change the colors to our own preference? For example, I'd like to change the buttons to a onyx color instead of the usual green. This is a very small feature and a simple suggestion.  

"very small and simple"

You are talking about the ui... and enabling customization for it.

Would be cool though and it's potential could be boosted even further by allowing people to buy UI skins.  

This would be easy if every item didnt have its own button image. But they do.
It would be simpler if there were a single button image, and the appropriate icon is laid over it. Then you'd only be recoloring one image, not several hundred.  

yeah that would be dope af. im supporting it if it's possible  

Posted by twilit

This would be easy if every item didnt have its own button image. But they do.
It would be simpler if there were a single button image, and the appropriate icon is laid over it. Then you'd only be recoloring one image, not several hundred.

I'm almost positive that ur wrong. If ur right. It's a pretty dumb idea for them not to have of just put images over the colored icons  

Every icon does have its own image with the button in the image, or did at least. For whatever reason that is how Stefan first did the original UI and all the staff followed suit. It went on like this for years, so there's something like 500+ icons like that.  

There are some things whose button is an icon laid over a blank button; But a lot of items have their own button images; one blue, one green.
 

Anyone know which folder the arrow keys, chat, map, grab, and sword button image files are? They don't seem to be in the same folder as the others for me  

Posted by Dusty

Every icon does have its own image with the button in the image, or did at least. For whatever reason that is how Stefan first did the original UI and all the staff followed suit. It went on like this for years, so there's something like 500+ icons like that.

Then how are you guys able to switch them all between blue and green so easily? Or were all icons designed in two different colours from the start? (I don't remember how far back the blue winter tile theme goes).  

Posted by Narcosis

Then how are you guys able to switch them all between blue and green so easily? Or were all icons designed in two different colours from the start? (I don't remember how far back the blue winter tile theme goes).

Like twilit said(I restored his post because it's more informative than mine, imo) there are two images made for each item. A green version and a blue version. Scripts render the button like so:

PHP Code:

button = "buttonfile"; // The button basename, so for the shovel it would be 'classiciphone_virtualkey_shovel'
suffix = season == "winter" ? "_blue" : ""; // This is the suffix, if it's winter it will be '_blue' otherwise it's '', or nothing.
image = button @ suffix @ ".png"; // This is where all the information is combined to form a filename. @ means concat or pretty much merging. It will merge the file basename, the suffix, and then append .png to the end of it. Boom, filename. 


That's the gist of the old system, if that makes sense. The system has since been modified to allow a button base image, and then rendering an image over it but that doesn't fix all the old images. I have considered writing something in Java that takes all the old virtualkeys and removes the alpha values from the image so I could do a batch process on the entire lot in one go but I'm not sure how effective that would be. And all the scripts would still need their filename updated with the new versions. I would love to do this honestly. I think there's a lot that can be done with the interface if we could change the buttons but it's just something we got screwed over with.

This is a similar problem all across the server scripts. I've recently had to go through 100+ scripts for all the pets and replace them to use a base class script instead of their own copy/pasted version of the same script. If there was a bug with the pets, I couldn't fix it because I would have to make the change to every single pet script. However I had to finally break down and do it because of necessities of needing to make some fundamental changes to pets and there was no other way to do it. There are lots of instances like this that come up when you're working on the server and it makes development a massive pain in the ass.  

Posted by Dusty

Like twilit said(I restored his post because it's more informative than mine, imo) there are two images made for each item. A green version and a blue version. Scripts render the button like so:

PHP Code:

button = "buttonfile"; // The button basename, so for the shovel it would be 'classiciphone_virtualkey_shovel'
suffix = season == "winter" ? "_blue" : ""; // This is the suffix, if it's winter it will be '_blue' otherwise it's '', or nothing.
image = button @ suffix @ ".png"; // This is where all the information is combined to form a filename. @ means concat or pretty much merging. It will merge the file basename, the suffix, and then append .png to the end of it. Boom, filename. 


That's the gist of the old system, if that makes sense. The system has since been modified to allow a button base image, and then rendering an image over it but that doesn't fix all the old images. I have considered writing something in Java that takes all the old virtualkeys and removes the alpha values from the image so I could do a batch process on the entire lot in one go but I'm not sure how effective that would be. And all the scripts would still need their filename updated with the new versions. I would love to do this honestly. I think there's a lot that can be done with the interface if we could change the buttons but it's just something we got screwed over with.

This is a similar problem all across the server scripts. I've recently had to go through 100+ scripts for all the pets and replace them to use a base class script instead of their own copy/pasted version of the same script. If there was a bug with the pets, I couldn't fix it because I would have to make the change to every single pet script. However I had to finally break down and do it because of necessities of needing to make some fundamental changes to pets and there was no other way to do it. There are lots of instances like this that come up when you're working on the server and it makes development a massive pain in the ass.

Your problems are just because of poor planing  

Posted by Alexmo

Your problems are just because of poor planing

Ya... I kind of explained this. But it's not our poor planning, it was the planning of the people who worked on the server before we came along.  

Classic wasnt developed for the stuff everyones suggesting so it takes long to do but when they do work on it people complain about slow development so thats somewhat of the reason they dont make noticable but small additions  

Purpleyespleasethankyou  

Posted by Dusty

But it's not our poor planning, it was the planning of the people who worked on the server before we came along.

The gist of all graal problems.