Martin Dauskardt wrote:

There are several themes for the sttng-skin (cool, blue ...) which all give errors in the log ("too many different colors used in palette") .

I want to create an own theme without this error :-)

What I learned is, that the "central area" of the osd menu is limited to 4 colors (cards with 2MB). The buttons below (red, green, yellow, blue) seem to be a different area.

So how do I count the colors in the central area?

For example, the default sttng theme seems to have only **two** colors in the main menu: -yellow (FFFCC024) -black (7F000000 for background and FF000000) When I change the Background to another color, the above mentioned error message appears immidiately when i open the main menu. So it seems that 000000 counts as one color, no matter which value I use for transparency, right?

No. Every color counts separately. Only if all 32 bit are the same, then it's the same color.

If so, which is the third and fourth color in the central area of the main menu?

The central area uses the colors

clrMenuItemCurrentFg = clrBlack clrMenuItemCurrentBg = clrYellow clrMenuItemSelectable = clrYellow clrMenuItemNonSelectable = clrCyan clrBackground = clrGray50

which makes for a total of four different colors.

Klaus