object-->color: saving custom colours with patch

    miscellanea
    Apr 03 2007 | 11:25 am
    hi,
    it is convenient to use the object-->color menu to change the colour of objects etc. the only problem is that i use a custom palette that i have specified using options-->colors, and when a patch opens on another copy of max it uses the default (shipped with) colours. is there a way of saving my custom palette with the patch, or better still a way of forcing max to store the rgb values of the chosen colours (such as it would on objects, like comment boxes, that allow colour to be set using get-info, (which is a tedious job if there are many objects because you have to do each one separately)). as a side note, what is the reasoning behind a colour-scheme system that can be 'overridden' so easily from computer to computer / user to user?
    thanks a
    • jvkr
      Apr 03 2007 | 1:27 pm
      This is covered in the topics pdf in the chapter messages to max. The message is boxcolor.
      _ johan
    • justin
      Apr 03 2007 | 4:13 pm
      i think the object colours are also stored in a text file in the cycling74 folder. i cant seem to find this file at the moment, which leads me to believe that it is only written if you modify the colours. u could distribute this file with the patch...
      j
    • vade
      Apr 03 2007 | 5:04 pm
      or use loadbang and messages to universal to set the colors perhaps. :) On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:13 PM, justin wrote:
      > > i think the object colours are also stored in a text file in the > cycling74 folder. i cant seem to find this file at the moment, > which leads me to believe that it is only written if you modify the > colours. u could distribute this file with the patch... > > j
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    • Roman Thilenius
      Apr 04 2007 | 1:43 am
      Quote: justin wrote on Tue, 03 April 2007 10:13 ---------------------------------------------------- > i think the object colours are also stored in a text file in the cycling74 folder. i cant seem to find this file at the moment, which leads me to believe that it is only written if you modify the colours. u could distribute this file with the patch... > > j ----------------------------------------------------
      thats true - the normal case is that _your colors are used always. but it is possible to have patches override those settings, as well as font size or DSP settings.