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--- sarah_skinning [2017/09/30 20:09]
shane [Skeuomorphic GUIs: the good, the bad, and the ugly]
+++ sarah_skinning [2017/10/01 16:39] (current)
shane [Thoughts on skinning]
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 The present version of SARAH provides for a minimalist skinning approach---just a single background image---the technique, limitations, and philosophy of which are discussed below. For details about how to create your own SARAH skin, go to https://github.com/getdunne/SARAH/tree/master/Skinning, and look in the //Skinning// folder in the source code.
+===== Default GUI is vector-only =====
+If the user does not provide a //sarah.png// image in their //Desktop// folder at run-time, the present SARAH code defaults to generating a "pure-vector" GUI, where all elements are software-generated. This should work on any computer, and based on tidbits I have read, it should also scale automatically on Retina-screen Macs. Unfortunately I don't have a Retina Mac at the moment, so I can't test this.
+The code still includes support for a default background image, compiled in to the executable using JUCE's //BinaryData// mechanism. This will only be used if you change the default value of //useBackgroundImage// to //true// in the constructor in //PluginEditor.cpp//.
 ===== Raster vs. Vector graphics for GUIs =====

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