Peter Ostry

I am not able to change the font color of messages and comment boxes programmatically. There are no attributes in the object reference and the behavior does not correspondend with the "Common Box Attributes" reference.

how-to-change-the-messagecomment-text-color-in-max5

On Aug 8, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Peter Ostry wrote:

> I am not able to change the font color of messages and comment boxes 

> I am not able to change the font color of messages and comment boxes  
> programmatically.

Chris Muir
cbm@well.com	
http://www.xfade.com

Many thanks, I haven't seen the alpha value mentioned anywhere and did not need it here. Works now of course.

To your question in the patch: I did not know the field-dragging trick. The first try gave me that:

but the second try would at least have told me that Max expects more parameters:

To your question in the patch: I did not know the field-dragging trick. The first try gave me that:
textcolor $1 :-)
(without the smily)
but the second try would at least have told me that Max expects more parameters:
bgcolor $1 $2 $3 $4

I'm trying to set the colour of jit.gl.2dtext to load as white from opening the patch, I've working to try and find the values to get this but for the life me I can get every other colour... any help? Sorry for such a dull question

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How to change the message/comment text color in Max5?