I wish for a new function in next HELIOS release

[frank]

Hi HELIOS Heros
The situation is as follow:
I like to create a HELIOS Profile where my touch input is on top of some instruments and therefore must be transparent, the problem is that it is not possible to make an user .png image transparent and the use it as the button... only the text of the button is the click able... and i do not need to have text on this area.

So: A "ButtonArea" and still able to show a "Fill Color" when pushed is what I need... that can be fully transparent.... This would be awesome if you guys can implement this.

Thanks for your support to the community with your work.

[MadKreator]

2 hours ago, frank said:

Hi HELIOS Heros
The situation is as follow:
I like to create a HELIOS Profile where my touch input is on top of some instruments and therefore must be transparent, the problem is that it is not possible to make an user .png image transparent and the use it as the button... only the text of the button is the click able... and i do not need to have text on this area.

So: A "ButtonArea" and still able to show a "Fill Color" when pushed is what I need... that can be fully transparent.... This would be awesome if you guys can implement this.

Thanks for your support to the community with your work.

Best to request on helios’ GitHub so any devs can see it.( I don’t really  ever see BluFin or other contributors on here).. Or even ask on captnzeen discord, someone may have an idea of how to trick it. You could always photoshop ( cut out ) the section of graphic from the profile image and use it as the button graphic , as opposed to trying to create a transparent image.. making more of a camouflaged button instead, with the press being a slightly enlarged version or a different image all together.. . May be a chore but might be what you’re after. Lots of ways to trick helios into doing what you want.  Might be hard pressed to have a feature added that isn’t widely sought after from the community. Bluefin is a great guy, but as he once told me, unless its a feature that would greatly benefit the majority of the community or Helios as a whole, or something he’s had on his mind, it probably won’t get implemented if its something that someone could figure out in couple hours, that may take days or weeks of his free time to write code for. Which is understandable being a free, open source program that no one is getting paid to develop or support. But if anyone figures it out, they’re welcome to submit it to be added to helios via GitHub. I’m not sure of your use case for a transparent button, but it is an interesting idea~

Edited May 12, 2023 by MadKreator