Scott Smallwood

So, this has been driving me crazy since Max 7: The way it has dumbed down the process of picking colors for things like panel is super annoying, but ok - numbers still work. Most color attributes in Max allow you to set their values with hard numbers. For example, I can set the panel background color using this message: [ bgfillcolor 0.3 0.3 0.3 ]. However, I sometimes start by picking a color in the inspector, and then hard coding that color. However, the colorpicker tools no longer show you the color's values - which is really annoying.

Ok - but I know that if I HOOK UP the attrui object and set it up as a multi-number display, it should show me the numbers that represent the current color.

So, when I make an attriu object, call it bgfillcolor, specify that it is a multi-float display, and then hook it up to a panel object, it forces the object into single-color display mode. So, I only can manipulate the R value.

This seems like a clear bug to me. Any ideas here?

So, this has been driving me crazy since Max 7:  The way it has dumbed down the process of picking colors for things like panel is super annoying, but ok - numbers still work.  Most color attributes in Max allow you to set their values with hard numbers.  For example, I can set the panel background color using this message:  [ bgfillcolor 0.3 0.3 0.3 ].  However, I sometimes start by picking a color in the inspector, and then hard coding that color.  However, the colorpicker tools no longer show you the color's values - which is really annoying.

So, when I make an attriu object, call it bgfillcolor, specify that it is a multi-float display, and then hook it up to a panel object, it forces the object into single-color display mode.  So, I only can manipulate the R value.

This seems like a clear bug to me.  Any ideas here?


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I can confirm the same behavior, and agree that attrui should behave better.

Meantime, you can use swatch to choose your color and prepend bgfillcolor to set the panel.

I can confirm the same behavior, and agree that attrui should behave better.
Meantime, you can use swatch to choose your color and prepend bgfillcolor to set the panel.


Use getattr bgfillcolor_color (or color1 or color2)

panel bgfillcolor attributes - how to specify as 3 floats