Re: Changing vanilla colors

I think you can now use any hex color you want - I avoided those in the 
90s when a lot of screens were color-mapped but that's a rarity nowadays.

cheers

Miller

On 9/27/24 5:44 AM, Andrew Lyons wrote:
> Good to see there's a plan in gestation. I may well check out pdnext, 
> but for now, I managed to change the white background to gray30. That 
> has helped.
>
> Some grep output:
>
> tcl/pdwindow.tcl:336:        .pdwindow.tcl.entry configure -background 
> "gray30"
> tcl/pdwindow.tcl:407:    option add *PdWindow*Text.background "gray30" 
> startupFile
> tcl/pdwindow.tcl:408:    option add *PdWindow*Entry.background 
> "gray30" startupFile
> tcl/pdwindow.tcl:438:        -background gray30 -foreground gray88 \
> tcl/pdtk_canvas.tcl:134:        -background gray30
>
> I used this tk rgb color map to lookup the names: 
> https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TkCmd/colors.htm 
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>
> I did see a lot of hex colors in the c code when I grepped for 
> "color". That gave me pause, and undermined the idea that I might be 
> able to make a brute force global change to the color palette used by 
> tk on my system: 
> https://www.sci.utah.edu/~chris/SCIRun/tcl/tk/tkColor.c 
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>
> Thanks for the info and advice!
>
> Cheers
>
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>
> On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 00:34, IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 9/26/24 07:26, Andrew Lyons wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I'm looking to modify vanilla src to hard code a dark color
>     scheme. Just
>     > something quick and easy.
>
>
>     https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1482
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>
>     >
>     > Any pointers on where in the src I find default colors? Doesn't
>     seem to be
>     > in the tcl directory...
>
>     it's mostly hardcoded in the C-sources.
>
>
>     gdasrm
>     IOhannes
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