Simple query?

Jay Simpson's icon

Hi all,

This sounds strange, but is it possible to have a message box where the colour of the text and background can be altered? There aren't any controls for it when you right click them. The text it receives is coming from a prepend_set object if that helps.

Any ideas please?

Cheers

Jay

Peter McCulloch's icon

You can do it in limited fashion with the "color" message, but you can
only control the color of the background. (the text changes dependent
on the background)

Peter McCulloch

Jay Simpson's icon

Thanks for the info. Forgot to mention that I had tried that. Is there any other way?

Cheers

J

nick rothwell | project cassiel's icon

I do variable-colour messages boxes with a hack: I create a ubumenu
with a single item, and disable it for mouse clicks. You can then set
RGB colours for all sorts of things...

    -- N.

nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://
www.cassiel.com

Peter McCulloch's icon

Right-o, or there's also the umenu label mode. It would be nice,
however, if all the graphical objects were in RGB-land.

Peter McCulloch

Jay Simpson's icon

Thanks folks. I am still having toruble though. Have tried using both and can't get it to work for my purposes. I need to take the contents of a message box and input it into the umenu, so that it is the only item in the umenu, but umenu won't now what it is until I open the file. The patch below shows what I'm uisng so far to try this, I have taken away the gumph coz it doesn't work. Any help please?

Cheers

Jay

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.