You can just use the standard color palette, from Tools > Show Colors,
which lets you choose any arbitrary color you want. The Favorite
Colors toolbar items are just a help to quickly select a few default
colors, they're not in any way the preferred way to select a color.
Be aware that comparing color components using "=" may not work
(well), because the component is a float and there may be rounding
errors. That's why I proposed using "<" as a comparison.
Christiaan
On Jun 12, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Peter Rich wrote:
Christiaan,
Thanks for the quick reply. It's been a while since I reset my
toolbar and I've just been using the default "favorite colors"
pallet. I didn't realize there was also a color picker that offered
a continuous spectrum. As nice as that is, though, for my purposes,
I can set up a statement to use the default colors. I'm playing
around with building a program to analyze the text from my notes.
The color I give to my notes has meaning to me, so it's important to
export that info, too. Listing the RGB values doesn't do me much
good since I'm going to be searching the notes textually. Since I
know I have a fixed "favorite colors" pallet, I'll just use those to
determine my conditional keys. If it's anything else, I'll just have
to export a string with an rgb value.
Thanks!
-peter-
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]
> wrote:
On Jun 12, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Peter Rich wrote:
> I've been using Skim for a while now, but just recently realized I
> could create my own export templates (I know, I should read the Wiki
> more often). Anyhow, I wanted to export a simple plain text document
> that had the color of the note in addition to the type. In looking
> at the value keys, though, I realized that the color is determined
> by separate red, green, and blue values. Is there any way to use a
> condition tag to say, "if red=xxx AND blue=xxx AND green = xxx then
> color = 'yellow'?" Since we can only pick our colors from a
> restricted pallet anyway, these rgb combinations are going to be a
> fixed set, so I can easily know which combos to expect and what
> their associated name is.
>
> Is something like this possible?
>
> --
> Peter Rich, PhD
> peter_rich [at] byu [dot] edu
> Instructional Psychology & Technology
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, Ut 84602
Not really. First of all: why are you saying you have a fixed palette?
Currently you can choose colors virtually continuously. There is no
deterministic way to map a (continuous) color to a color name, because
there's only a finite (very limited) number of color names.
If you can figure out a set of rules for the few colors that you
personally you will always use and get names for them, you could do
this by adding condition tags to the template. Something like this
(though probably even more complicated):
<$color.redComponent<0.3?>
<$color.greenComponent<0.3?>
<$color.blueComponent<0.3?>
black
<?$color.blueComponent<0.6?>
dark blue
<?$color.blueComponent?>
blue
</$color. blueComponent?>
<?$color.greenComponent<0.6?>
...
<?$color.greenComponent?>
...
</$color.greenComponent?>
<?$color.redComponent<0.6?>
...
<?$color.redComponent?>
...
</$color. redComponent?>
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