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Title: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: zook2 on August 08, 2021, 10:27:46 PM
What it says in the title.
Title: Re: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: RESTRICTED ACCOUNT on August 09, 2021, 07:53:10 AM
It looks like it's working fine as far as I can see. The background color specified by the theme is applied. White if the theme has no settings.
(https://i.imgur.com/Hdfy2d7.png)

# Chat window transparency (0=off, 25, 50 75 are possible)
chat_transparency = 0

Note that "0" is transparency off, as described in simconf.tab.
Title: Re: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: zook2 on August 09, 2021, 12:16:42 PM
Thanks, but could it be that this is a server setting and thus it doesn't have any effect if I change it locally?
Title: Re: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: Matthew on August 09, 2021, 02:09:04 PM
Quote from: zook2 on August 09, 2021, 12:16:42 PM
Thanks, but could it be that this is a server setting and thus it doesn't have any effect if I change it locally?

It works. Is it possible that the theme you have edited is not the theme that you have selected in the game? Personally I saved the edited theme under a new name to make sure that I got the theme that I wanted, because several themes have confusingly similar names:

(https://i.imgur.com/Bi4Pm3K.png)

P.S. I also think it's possible that the Nightly Updater will overwrite themes if you use existing ones.
Title: Re: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: zook2 on August 09, 2021, 04:29:26 PM
Themes? We have themes? I'll have a look...
Title: Re: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: zook2 on August 10, 2021, 11:18:02 PM
I found the setting now, thanks!
Title: Re: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: jamespetts on August 11, 2021, 08:19:55 PM
I should note that themes are now built nightly on the Bridgewater-Brunel server, so you should all be able to get the latest version of the themes from there in future.

I will now mark this topic as closed.
Title: Re: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: Matthew on August 11, 2021, 08:58:56 PM
It seems that nobody actually wants transparent chat. Should we maybe set the default to 'not transparent'?
Title: Re: Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect
Post by: jamespetts on August 11, 2021, 09:42:32 PM
Quote from: Matthew on August 11, 2021, 08:58:56 PM
It seems that nobody actually wants transparent chat. Should we maybe set the default to 'not transparent'?

That would be sensible. It is quite hard to see the text when transparent. I think that the latest themes provide for non-transparent chat.