jayrope

Morning, please excuse one of my typical beginner questions:

Is there a way to set text & background color for all message objects in a patch at once and WITHOUT having to cable them especially for this purpose? 

Eventually even including font and font size?

What, if i want to color comments separately?

I'm looking into [thispatcher], both at it's help as well as tutorial and reference entries, but can't quit figure out how this works.

Is there a way to set text & background color for all message objects in a patch at once and WITHOUT having to cable them especially for this purpose? 
Eventually even including font and font size?

4-63-setting-text-background-color-for-all-message-objects

On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:37 AM, jayrope wrote:

> Morning, please excuse one of my typical beginner questions:

> Is there a way to set text & background color for all message 

> objects in a patch at once and WITHOUT having to cable them 

> Eventually even including font and font size?

> What, if i want to color comments separately?

> I'm looking into [thispatcher], both at it's help as well as 

> tutorial and reference entries, but can't quit figure out how this 

>
> Morning, please excuse one of my typical beginner questions:
>
> Is there a way to set text & background color for all message  
> objects in a patch at once and WITHOUT having to cable them  
> especially for this purpose?
> Eventually even including font and font size?
>
> What, if i want to color comments separately?
>
> I'm looking into [thispatcher], both at it's help as well as  
> tutorial and reference entries, but can't quit figure out how this  
> works.
>
> Thank you for any hints!
>
> jrp
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> ---
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> in too many places to name.
> mood description: audiotic.


alrite, did so. thank you for the suggestion.

it turns out that messages can be tweaked in a small range, but not really freely, apart from using the built-in 15 colors of 4.63. these can be changed, of course, but the whole two-step procedure is clumsy.

comments then don't respond to any of my universal attempts.

i guess i leave it like that, but just out of curiosity: is that kind of functionality much better in max 5.05?

can actually any object be targeted regarding it's appearance, an in a kind of generally similar fashion?

i'm sorry for not being able currently to even run a 5.05 demo here for technical reasons.

it turns out that messages can be tweaked in a small range, but not really freely, apart from using the built-in 15 colors of 4.63. these can be changed, of course, but the whole two-step procedure is clumsy.
comments then don't respond to any of my universal attempts.

i guess i leave it like that, but just out of curiosity: is that kind of functionality much better in max 5.05?
can actually any object be targeted regarding it's appearance, an in a kind of generally similar fashion?
i'm sorry for not being able currently to even run a 5.05 demo here for technical reasons.

> i guess i leave it like that, but just out of curiosity: is that kind

> of functionality much better in max 5.05? can actually any object be

> targeted regarding it's appearance, an in a kind of generally similar

yes, as mentioned, plus there's a lot broader range of colors/alpha for every object. They all can respond to similar bgcolor/fgcolor/etc. commands in similar fashion, so this kind of runtime-tweaking is way better.

> i guess i leave it like that, but just out of curiosity: is that kind
> of functionality much better in max 5.05? can actually any object be
> targeted regarding it's appearance, an in a kind of generally similar
> fashion?

yes, as mentioned, plus there's a lot broader range of colors/alpha for every object. They all can respond to similar bgcolor/fgcolor/etc. commands in similar fashion, so this kind of runtime-tweaking is way better.


4.63 / setting text & background color for all message objects