Board Background colour selector

[hilakata]

As a rainbow-board user I need a green background colour in order to use rainbow-board as a whiteboard overlay in OBS for live annotations during screen casts or video recordings.

Solution:
Option 1: Background colour is changeable in settings.
Option 2: A 'Green Room' theme

[harshkhandeparkar]

Could you elaborate what you mean by "Green Room Theme"? We can discuss this on Discord if you like, the server link is in the README file.

[hilakata]

The board background colour of the (not yet existing) Greenboard Theme is set to #00FF00 and not white as for Default Light / Dark Whiteboard, or black for Default Dark / Light Blackboard. (your existing themes)
This way I can record in OBS a window in which rainbow-board is running as a source on top of the screen I am showing, and the background of rainbow-board becomes completely transparent by using a chroma key filter set to #00FF00 (in OBS).
This way I can interactively 'whiteboard' on top of what I am showing as the main screen in OBS.

[hilakata]

Addendum: The icing on the cake would be a slightly darker green for the ruler options ('Set Background').
This is a nice to have only.

[harshkhandeparkar]

I can make a theme but instead of adding it to the app (which will take time), I can send you a "plugin" for now that will add the theme to your installation if you tell me your operating system.

The darker green ruler will take more time as well.

[hilakata]

No worries, didn't expect such a fast response. ;)

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[harshkhandeparkar]

Here's the zipped plugin file: green-screen.zip

The zip file has a folder called green-screen, you will have to put the folder in ~/.config/Rainbow Board/plugins or ~/.config/rainbow-board/plugins, whichever directory exists.

Secondly, you will have to change the file ~/.config/Rainbow Board/settings.json or ~/.config/rainbow-board/settings.json. Find the line "plugins": [] and replace it with "plugins": ["green-screen"].

Relaunch the app after doing this and new themes will appear in the settings.