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What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?

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>What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?

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At 9:26 AM -0600 10/17/06, David wrote:
>What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?

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On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:26 PM, David wrote:

> What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?

On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:26 PM, David wrote:
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> What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?


On Oct 17, 2006, at 11:26 AM, David wrote:

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> What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?


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David wrote:
> What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?
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damn you guys are fast... i thought i had that one.

On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:38 PM, evan.raskob [lists] wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:26 PM, David wrote:

>> What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?

> [bgcolor 0 255 0]
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> On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:26 PM, David wrote:
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>> What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?
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At 11:36 AM -0400 10/17/06, Dan Nigrin wrote:

>>What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?

Just following my own post - the reason I tend to use panel more than 

bgcolor, as others have suggested, is that it doesn't work when using 

the patch when embedded in a bpatcher window...

At 11:36 AM -0400 10/17/06, Dan Nigrin wrote:
>At 9:26 AM -0600 10/17/06, David wrote:
>>What is the best way to add color to the background of your patch?
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>[panel]

Just following my own post - the reason I tend to use panel more than 
bgcolor, as others have suggested, is that it doesn't work when using 
the patch when embedded in a bpatcher window...

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Panels are great for this, but they definitely slow down the development process... when you are moving objects or making connections over then, the redraw slows stuff down considerably. So just put them in when you're done. (Also trouble when trying to select stuff on top of the panel or move these objects.)

The bgcolor object is fine, but as was mentioned, doesn't work inside a bpatcher window (not sure why? probably am missing something obvious there... as an instance of a parent patch, it can't do its own bgcolor...?)

Panels are also great for showing what iteration is active or the user is currently viewing (say in a bpatcher) --- color-codeable with the brgb message, user-defineable with a bit of tweaking and a color-swatch object. They are also great for showing/hiding a mess of controls -- use scripting with thispatcher to "show / hide" a *named* panel, or use bringtofront and sendtoback. They can also readily show that something is "banging" or changing state, by switching colors. (Of course, standard epilepsy warnings apply....)

Panels are great for this, but they definitely slow down the development process... when you are moving objects or making connections over then, the redraw slows stuff down considerably. So just put them in when you're done. (Also trouble when trying to select stuff on top of the panel or move these objects.) 

The bgcolor object is fine, but as was mentioned, doesn't work inside a bpatcher window (not sure why?  probably am missing something obvious there... as an instance of a parent patch, it can't do its own bgcolor...?)

On 22-oct.-06, at 06:54, Seejay James wrote:

> Panels are great for this, but they definitely slow down the 

> development process... when you are moving objects or making 

> connections over then, the redraw slows stuff down considerably. So 

> just put them in when you're done. (Also trouble when trying to select 

> stuff on top of the panel or move these objects.)

Include the [panel] in the background, and lock the background.

> Panels are great for this, but they definitely slow down the 
> development process... when you are moving objects or making 
> connections over then, the redraw slows stuff down considerably. So 
> just put them in when you're done. (Also trouble when trying to select 
> stuff on top of the panel or move these objects.)

adding color to the background of your patch