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Has anyone used colorpicker or swatch to change the color of a text message in a message box? I'm creating a list of songs as I move from one to the other, I want to change the color of the currently selected song.

Has anyone used colorpicker or swatch to change the color of a text message in a message box?  I'm creating a list of songs as I move from one to the other, I want to change the color of the currently selected song.

colorpicker-or-swatch-to-change-the-color-of-a-text-message-in-a-message-object

The "textcolor" message should do it. Open up the [message] object inspector and click on the @ sign in the lower left corner to see the messages you can send to an object. You can even drag the name of the attribute onto the patch to create the message you need.

This is what I ended up doing. It's actually really quite cool.

            "box" :             {

                "maxclass" : "message",

                "text" : "This is my text with a colored background",

                "numoutlets" : 1,

                "bgcolor" : [ 0.87, 0.47, 0.53, 1.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "" ],

                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                "patching_rect" : [ 163.0, 193.0, 231.0, 18.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-4",

                "fontname" : "Arial",

                "numinlets" : 2

                "text" : "color 0.87 0.47 0.53 1.",

                "patching_rect" : [ 153.0, 157.0, 130.0, 18.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-1",

            "patchline" :             {

                "source" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-4", 0 ],

                "hidden" : 0,

                "midpoints" : [ ]

This is what I ended up doing.   It's actually really quite cool.

{
	"boxes" : [ 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "message",
				"text" : "This is my text with a colored background",
				"numoutlets" : 1,
				"bgcolor" : [ 0.87, 0.47, 0.53, 1.0 ],
				"outlettype" : [ "" ],
				"fontsize" : 12.0,
				"patching_rect" : [ 163.0, 193.0, 231.0, 18.0 ],
				"id" : "obj-4",
				"fontname" : "Arial",
				"numinlets" : 2
			}

		}
, 		{
			"box" : 			{
				"maxclass" : "message",
				"text" : "color 0.87 0.47 0.53 1.",
				"numoutlets" : 1,
				"outlettype" : [ "" ],
				"fontsize" : 12.0,
				"patching_rect" : [ 153.0, 157.0, 130.0, 18.0 ],
				"id" : "obj-1",
				"fontname" : "Arial",
				"numinlets" : 2
			}

		}
 ],
	"lines" : [ 		{
			"patchline" : 			{
				"source" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],
				"destination" : [ "obj-4", 0 ],
				"hidden" : 0,
				"midpoints" : [  ]
			}

If you're creating a whole list of entries you might want to look at [jit.cellblock] which will help you format them like a table/spreadsheet. You can then do interesting things with highlighting too. Also, when posting patches to the forum try using "Copy Compressed" from the Edit menu as the resulting text takes up much less space.

colorpicker or swatch to change the color of a text message in a message object