I'm trying to change the main background color to something less olive green, more green-blue. I've used the Theme Element Finder to locate all the relevant bits, except two- I have clicked on every element in the list, but none seem to correspond to the Media Explorer waveform background. When no waveform is selected, the space where the waveform will appear is a long, brown rectangular box (this is true for the default theme, but easier to see if you change the main window background to a contrasting color). The space I'm talking about is just to the right of the wave preview volume slider. The second bit I can't locate is the Main Window Toolbar background, behind the toolbar buttons. It seems to be a layer of some sort- when I change the color of the main window background, the toolbar background turns to a brownish-gray. So it changes, but not to the same color as the rest of the background. If anyone can help me figure out which bits I need to find and change to make this work, it would be much appreciated! Thanks.

The toolbar background is an image in the theme's image folder: toolbar_bg.png. If there is no such picture in the current theme, Reaper uses the color you specify as "Main window background". Possibly the theme you use has an image with some percent of transparency, so you experience that color mixing behaviour? I also couldn't find where the waveform background color in the media explorer is taken from.

yes me too, i just posted a new theme, and looked for that item.

Hey, thanks for the replies! Hopefully that's one problem solved. @gofer- If I move the toolbar_bg.png file out of the folder, set the "main window background" to the color of my choice, the toolbar background will now match. Have I got that right? For the waveform preview background- right now I just preview something pronto so I don't have to look at a big brown rectangle all day :) @whatsup- If I figure this out I'll post the answer here.

Bump and update- Removing the toolbar_bg.png file made the toolbar background default to the "main window background" color. :) So, I'm still looking for some way to change the wave form preview background. Thanks!

bump. Yes, I'd very much like to know how to define the wave preview background in the media explorer. Fingers crossed.

.. and there's a bug there, too

DarkStar, you rock! "the waveform background colour is defined by "Media item background (odd tracks)" if you want to change it." Thank you sooo much.