Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-21 Thread Atte André Jensen
marius schebella wrote: you have to send a message like color 16 to the canvas, Thanks, exactly what I was looking for! -- peace, love harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk ___

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-19 Thread Atte André Jensen
marius schebella wrote: either put a canvas in the background and change it via send/receive This seems like an easy thing, but I get cnv: no method for 'float'. What message could I send to a canvas to make it red? or use sys_gui in combination with hcs/canvas_name which lets you change

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-19 Thread marius schebella
Atte André Jensen wrote: marius schebella wrote: either put a canvas in the background and change it via send/receive This seems like an easy thing, but I get cnv: no method for 'float'. What message could I send to a canvas to make it red? you have to send a message like color 16 to the

[PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-17 Thread Atte André Jensen
Hi Is it possible (for reasons of visual feedback) to change the background color of one instance of an abstraction? It's an abstraction where only one instance is active at the time, so I'd like to change the background color of the active one. Is obviously should be done programatically

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-17 Thread marius schebella
hi, either put a canvas in the background and change it via send/receive or use sys_gui in combination with hcs/canvas_name which lets you change the font/bg colors of your patch dynamically. marius. Atte André Jensen wrote: Hi Is it possible (for reasons of visual feedback) to change the

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-17 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Yeah, you could probably use the float value of $0 to generate the color. .hc On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:18 PM, marius schebella wrote: hi, either put a canvas in the background and change it via send/ receive or use sys_gui in combination with hcs/canvas_name which lets you change the