new design for OSD icons

waterwingz

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Re: new design for OSD icons - updated for 2011

« Reply #10 on: 28 / September / 2011, 21:59:25 »

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bumping this topic after 30 months ... here's a patch file that adds the colored OSD icons to the current build .. the image at the top of the thread show what you will see if you try this .. athough you will likely need to tune the colors for your specific camera by modifying the code ... which is largely why this has never made it into the trunk .. still, the icons are really really nice so please indulge..... and you get notification of when a USB remote is enabled ...

color_icons_344.patch (24.24 kB - downloaded 46 times.)

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msl

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Re: new design for OSD icons

« Reply #11 on: 29 / September / 2011, 06:39:27 »

Thx for bumping

Everyone can try out the colored icons with CHDK-DE.

But there is also a problem. Most of the (newer) cameras needs special color definitions. Without this definitions the look of the symbols is not so good.

I think Philmoz's idea of a self-made palette is a good way - see here: http://tools.assembla.com/chdk/changeset/1343/branches/philmoz . But it also means a lot of work.

msl

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waterwingz

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Re: new design for OSD icons

« Reply #12 on: 29 / September / 2011, 09:18:55 »

Quote from: msl on 29 / September / 2011, 06:39:27

But there is also a problem. Most of the (newer) cameras needs special color definitions. Without this definitions the look of the symbols is not so good.

I think Philmoz's idea of a self-made palette is a good way - see here: http://tools.assembla.com/chdk/changeset/1343/branches/philmoz . But it also means a lot of work.

There were a couple of good discussions on the CHDK IRC channel about this last week. Philmoz's idea works on one generation of Canon cameras - others (like my G10) need a very different solution. But without this sort of fix, many camera have a very limited selection of colors in their palettes making colored icons difficut to implement.

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msl

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Re: new design for OSD icons

« Reply #13 on: 29 / September / 2011, 15:33:53 »

Quote from: waterwingz on 29 / September / 2011, 09:18:55

There were a couple of good discussions on the CHDK IRC channel about this last week. Philmoz's idea works on one generation of Canon cameras ...

Ok, this is new for me, thanks for this informations. Then we must use the existing method with the color definitions in the gui moduls.

msl

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waterwingz

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Re: new design for OSD icons

« Reply #14 on: 29 / September / 2011, 23:06:22 »

Quote from: msl on 29 / September / 2011, 15:33:53

Ok, this is new for me, thanks for this informations. Then we must use the existing method with the color definitions in the gui moduls.

That's what the CHDK-DE version does.

But it does not help with then many cameras that have a limited palette - with some colors missing entirely and some colors offered in only one shade.

Not sure there is an easy solution - hopefully there will only need to be 2 or 3 unique versions of what philmoz has discoverred.

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philmoz

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Re: new design for OSD icons

« Reply #15 on: 01 / October / 2011, 22:15:14 »

Added in changeset 1352.

Moved the color definitions for the icon colors to gui_draw.h and updated the code accordingly.

Currently this is compiled conditionally and only enabled for G10, G12, SX30 and IXUS310.
Other cameras will use the old icons.

Add a define for CAM_USE_COLORED_ICONS in platform_camera.h to enable.
Will probably require tweaking the icon color definitions in gui_draw.h for each camera.

Phil.

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