Splashy - alpha channel not working
Hi,
The alpha channel of the progress bar colours doesn't seem to work with Splashy on my system. I have set transparency in the theme XML but it's ingnored. The transparency does work for the text area, but not for the progress bar or its background.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? If anyone can help me identify if this is a problem with my set up or with Splashy itself I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
Fishonadish
When you don't get a response here it usually means one of several things:
· No one understood your post (not the case this time though - you articulated the problem very well)
· No one else has encountered the same problem
· No one was able to duplicate the problem on their system
· No one likes you (just kidding!)
I'm glad to hear you got it working ... and very good that you posted what fixed it so that others facing the same problem might benefit. Thanks for that!.
-DH
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