adjust_alpha

[eylles]

@Ciavi i find interest in this, please elaborate is this intended to be used with the -a flag in some manner?

[Ciavi]

@Ciavi i find interest in this, please elaborate is this intended to be used with the -a flag in some manner?

Hello @eylles , sure thing, I'll elaborate.
This piece of code is meant to be used in templates files in the following way (I'll post an example I used for Waybar):

@define-color foreground {foreground};
@define-color background {background.adjust_alpha(50).rgba};
@define-color background-tooltip {background};

What it does is very simple (and pretty dumb to be fair): it just creates a shallow copy of the color instance we are using, adjusts alpha_num and returns such copy, never changing the original: that way the original instance remains untouched and ready for use somewhere else.

This has not seen much use in my personal experience with pywal as most programs which support transparency, whether it is through #rrggbbaa or rgba(r, g, b, a), don't really need such function. I also have not investigated whether this has a significant impact on performance.

[eylles]

yeh i like the idea, may be a bit niche but is not like pywal16 doesn't got other niche stuff so i'll add it.