On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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.
>
That'll work for me, but I'd hoped that, if I ever made anything useful, I
could share it with others looking to do something similar. I'll have to
rethink how to do the color thing.
>
> 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.
>
Ah, that makes sense. I'm glad you pointed it out; otherwise, I'd be using
'='. I guess that introduces one more level of complexity to this color
thing.
>
>
> 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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> Instructional Psychology & Technology
> Brigham Young University
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