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The [swatch] object takes a list of four floats and turns that into a color which it outputs. (Is this called an RGB color?) Anyway, I need to return a [flonum] object to the Max/MSP default color scheme after having changed its color with [swatch]. For the life of me I can't figure out what the RGB list would be for the Max default colors! (Is there a way to simple print an object's color attributes?)

I must just be looking in the wrong places. Can anyone find this information?

maxmsp-object-default-colors-in-swatch

You can dynamically change the color of an object with a sendbox script.

If you want to change the default color of the flonum go to option -> object defaults -> all -> flonum

swatch outputs RGBA (red, green, blue, alpha)

Thanks, that helps! However, what I was really looking for was what are the RGBA values for the default max color scheme? So for instance, what is the RGBA list for the "out-of-the-box" object border color, background color, highlighted color, etc.? Does anyone know what these are?

They are in the inspector for any given object as well as Options > Object Defaults…

Obviously divide [0..255] values by 255 for the [0..1] normalized values in which case alpha is generally assumed to be 1 unless specified.

I must be missing something. How do I get from this (screenshot) to the RGBA color list that [swatch] can take as a list input?

Thanks for continuing to help me despite my incompetence here...

Click the slider icon at the top to reveal the [0..255] RGB values.

Manually copy them to a message box. Pass the list through vexpr $f1/255. Append a 1. to the output.

Manually copy them to a message box.   Pass the list through vexpr $f1/255.  Append a 1. to the output.


You can also go into the default-definitions folder and grab [0..1] default values from the .maxdefines file for a given object.

Cool! I never knew about those sliders. Thanks a million.

Max/MSP object default colors in [Swatch]?