Transparent Background for AudioWaveForm Workaround

[bendurso]

I read in this post that the background of Audiowaveform can't be transparent: https://forum.hise.audio/topic/5500/audiowaveform-set-background-transparent-bug/2?_=1709659610912

But still, I realized that if you use a slightly darker color (than the GUI background) for the waveform background, you achieve that transparent effect.

In Hise it looks good, and the exported plugin in Ableton also looks good. But in all the other DAWs I tried it looks different.

Inside HISE and Ableton:

Other DAWs:

Does anyone have a workaround to make the audiowaveform background transparent in all DAWs?

[David Healey]

@bendurso Both those images look the same to me

[bendurso]

@d-healey said in Transparent Background for AudioWaveForm Workaround:

e images look the same to me

In the second image you can see the background of the waveform (different from the background of the GUI). In the first it is almost completely transparent.

[David Healey]

@bendurso I can see the waveform background in both. Take a look on a different monitor.

[bendurso]

@d-healey Oh yes, on another monitor I could see better that the background can be seen on both. The second however is darker.

Beyond this, is there any trick to make it fully transparent?

[David Healey]

@bendurso said in Transparent Background for AudioWaveForm Workaround:

But still, I realized that if you use a slightly darker color (than the GUI background) for the waveform background,

Why not make it the same colour?

[David Healey]

Actually if you turn off the opaque setting then you can get a transparent background.

[bendurso]

@d-healey My opaque setting is turned off. But still I can't achieve that result. How did you make it?

[David Healey]

@bendurso Do you have the enableRange overlay turned on?

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[bendurso]

@d-healey said in Transparent Background for AudioWaveForm Workaround:

Do you have the enableRange overlay turned on?

Yes. I have enableRange turned on. That thing is changing the colour. Is there a way to customize the colour of the range?

[David Healey]

@bendurso Maybe with LAF

[bendurso]

@d-healey Cool thanks, I found it in other post:

LAF.registerFunction("drawThumbnailRange", function(g, obj)
{
	g.setColour(0xFFFFFFFF);
	g.drawRoundedRectangle([a[0], a[1], a[2], a[3]], 5, 1);

}); 

It only modifies the color of the range thumbnail but for some reason it also makes the range background transparent :)