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clicking a button that is hidden behind a panel opens up the color picker to change the background color of the corresponding panel and also send that color to a dict.

i want it to recall the color that i previously saved to the dict before the colorpicker gets activated by feeding it back into it.

in addition to that i was hoping for the preset object to store variations of the dict, which seems to work partially.

the problem is that whenever i load a preset, i can see the values changing in the dict.view but if i actually double click the dict itself it comes up as empty, and the part of the code that is supposed to pick up the changes and apply them to the panels whenever you load a preset has no messages going through.

if i then click one of the buttons it is unable to recall the previously set color, and instead of opening up the colorpicker it just adds a default color list to the empty dict, requiring a second click for the colorpicker to show up.

this newly created dict seems to be temporary, as it disappears whenever i load a new preset.

is the preset object just storing the data that is contained in the dict.view and not the dict itself?

do i need an extra step to store the dict data that is contained in the preset and clearly visible if i open the .json file in the actual dict?

also, the patch runs fine in max but if i load it in ableton live and try to use the colorpicker it sometimes crashes, no idea why.

clicking a button that is hidden behind a panel opens up the color picker to change the background color of the corresponding panel and also send that color to a dict.
i want it to recall the color that i previously saved to the dict before the colorpicker gets activated by feeding it back into it.
in addition to that i was hoping for the preset object to store variations of the dict, which seems to work partially.

the problem is that whenever i load a preset, i can see the values changing in the dict.view but if i actually double click the dict itself it comes up as empty, and the part of the code that is supposed to pick up the changes and apply them to the panels whenever you load a preset has no messages going through.
if i then click one of the buttons it is unable to recall the previously set color, and instead of opening up the colorpicker it just adds a default color list to the empty dict, requiring a second click for the colorpicker to show up.
this newly created dict seems to be temporary, as it disappears whenever i load a new preset.

is the preset object just storing the data that is contained in the dict.view and not the dict itself?
do i need an extra step to store the dict data that is contained in the preset and clearly visible if i open the .json file in the actual dict?

also, the patch runs fine in max but if i load it in ableton live and try to use the colorpicker it sometimes crashes, no idea why.


colorpicker-dict-presets-confusion

shameless bump because i'm still stuck here

I'm not entirely sure what you want to do here, but here is what I think you might want.

I might just let each bgcolor be it's own pattr, and keep it separate from (but mirroring) the dict. You could actually go a step further and directly pattr-ize those bgcolors by doing a [pattr foo @bindto objectvarname::bgcolor], but maybe that is overkill. The below is just using the dict as the pattr and then propagating the entries to the objects on recall.

I'm not entirely sure what you want to do here, but here is what I think you might want. 

awesome! this helped me alot and its alot more elegant than the mess i created.

awesome! this helped me alot and its alot more elegant than the mess i created.
thx, time to get back to work.


colorpicker + dict + presets = confusion