Apparently, we can use QBrush -typed properties in the CSS. This just never occured to me before!
So, this has several benefits. A QColor property only allows a singular RGB value, but a QBrush allows the same plus also qgradients, RGBA-colours and maybe even bitmap patterns. So I'm changing some properties to QBrush, where it makes sense to allow this additional functionality - no need to enable it for simple things like text colours or such.
- Song editor background: instead of the earlier hack with 7 qproperties just to set a limited background gradient, we can use only 2 properties and allow much more flexibility with Qt's own qgradient syntax
- Automation editor: background, graph colour, and the sidebar colour - @musikBear recently complained not seeing the grid through the graph, so transparency can help there, and qlineargradients in the graph can produce very cool visual effects. Grid is pointless to change, it should stay single-colour for now.
- Piano roll: here, I only made the background use QBrush - we don't really have much else here that can utilize QBrush, the notes have their own gradient system... maybe the 2nd colour of the note gradient could be customizable though.
There are probably more places where this change makes sense...
- This allows defining a default colour for BB-track patterns in the CSS
- The default colour is used for all bb-patterns which don't have a custom colour set by the user: in other words, the colour of a pattern can be any rgb-value OR "style colour"
- By default, all created bb-patterns use the style colour
- You can also reset colourized patterns to use style colour again
- Backwards compatibility: old projects will be loaded so that any pattern using either of the old default colours will be converted to use style colour
TODO: add a settings option that can disable custom colours (ie. always use style colour), and/or an option to reset all patterns in a project to style colour. This is needed, since themes can now change the song editor background, which can lead to unfortunate colour combinations with custom colours...
- Envelope length is now temposyncable and has higher maximum
- Distortion is divided to start/end knobs for a simple distortion envelope
- Everything backwards compatible
Vesa