On May 15, 2008, at 1:39 PM, João Pais wrote: >>>>> A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of >>>>> having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite >>>>> interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at >>>>> home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc. Hans told us >>>>> where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color >>>>> codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet >>>>> to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too >>>>> much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first. >>>> >>>> Sounds useful, patches welcome! >>> >>> actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it >>> would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then >>> just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more >>> sense with the current pd structure. >> >> >> you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible: > > great. I can do a pd patch with a GUI to set up these parameters (I > just can't say yet when it will be finished). > But I still think that it would be better if these settings would > be read by pd itself, and loaded through a patch by the user. For > example, the patch I c(w)ould write would output a text file with > the pd-theme, and pd would access this file on startup (then an > extra parameter would be added to pd). > > I also think that the settings should at a later point be done in > Tcl/Tk menus, but for now I guess the xxx.pd-theme text file would > be enough. An even more mature option would be a tcl/tk dynamic > window/menu with all the themes stored on the path, and it would > only be necessary to click on one to make it work. > > but first things first: if anyone wants really to work in it and > has no hurry, I can start up the "pd theme chooser".
I am thinking of creating 'startup.pd', which would be a pd patch that is autmoatically loaded by Pd when it is started. Then people could configure their own settings in the form of a Pd patch, for things that are more complicated than the preferences allow. .hc > > > -- > Friedenstr. 58 > 10249 Berlin > Deutschland > Tel +49 30 42020091 > Mob +49 162 6843570 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > skype: jmmmpjmmmp > http://www.puredata.org/Members/jmmmp > IBM Thinkpad R51, XP, Pd-Ext-0.39-2-t5, Pd Van 0.40-t2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- kill your television _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list