Max 9: Old patchers open with new colors
All my existing patchers open with this terrible new dark look. I hate drawing on black paper and the first thing I did with Max 9 was to make it bright as it was.
But what about the existing patchers? Can I make them look friendly again without having to set the colours for each one individually?
Sounds like you would like to change the theme.
We're still working on updating all the documentation, but this is available here in Max 9, rather than the interfaces section.
The "max8" or "dark-over-light" themes should give you something close to what you're used to in Max 8.
Ah yes, that's usable.
Thank you!
Hi,
is there a simple way to do it from the patch, to avoid changing the theme when opening old patches, or so that the help patches of the old Distrib open in a readable way, with the max 8 skin?
thanks
Hello!
What about colour differentiation between max and RNBO. It seems like all objects get the same colour treatment. I find the colour switch to RNBO helpful. Is there a way to get this to work in Max 9?
Thanks!
S
When you open a RNBO patch
you can open inspector and change the color to differentiate from MAx
but this are local so you have to change each time you make a new RNBO
can't fidn a way to do this in the preferences or programmatically (this patcher) or Universal
Thank you Wil! I can give that a try!
GREG BELLER salut Greg, did you find a way by any chance?
I have a public package with bpatcher modules (alla Vizzie / BEAP) and hundreds of patches of documentation and examples, with a LOT of text that cannot be easily inverted like black or white, either greyscale or some flashy color highlights. These become a nightmare for readability with the dark setting, especially for people with eye problems like myself.
JOSHUA KIT CLAYTON
Hi Joshua, Is there an easy way to initialize a single patch to open with a Max 8 template when opened in Max 9 (and just stay the same for Max 8 users) ?
I'd rather add a single object with a loadbang in 400+ patches than redesign my whole packages color coding entirely, that was years of work and would at least take months to fix by hand ☹️
Thanks in advance !
Hi WIL
Sorry I just saw your reply (somehow I never got the notif)
Unfortunately that's not a great solution I'm afraid. The setting is global right?
For my own usage it's fine, but my package is public. I cannot change my (modest few dozen…) users' color settings without telling them. It would be a bit ridiculous.
Is there any way to do this but at the level of the patch?
Again I don't mean to change my users' whole Max color experience, only the patches I made, and also a lot of bpatchers alla Beaper/Vizzie (interface set in presentation mode)
JOSHUA KIT CLAYTON Since you mention some things are being documented, do you see any plan for color theme control at the patch level?
Otherwise is this a reasonable feature request?
I have the same question: How to change the color theme at the level of the patch?