miscellanea

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?

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?

object-color-saving-custom-colours-with-patch

This is covered in the topics pdf in the chapter messages to max. The message is boxcolor.

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...

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...

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

Quote: justin wrote on Tue, 03 April 2007 10:13

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> 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...

thats true - the normal case is that _your colors are used

but it is possible to have patches override those settings,

Quote: justin wrote on Tue, 03 April 2007 10:13
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> 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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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.


object-->color: saving custom colours with patch