Re: GUI objects not easily visible with dark background

> It would even be good if there was a way to pick a new "color" in the
> IEM GUI color picker called "default" which then uses the color from
> Pd's bg for Background and Pd's fg for Front and Label.

0.56 already includes a commit by iohannes to handle a literal
"default" color in the future which would ideally lead to a scenario
like this - see:
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/commit/b38ef00ebd9761cdbc744f198ee0ff05a09ce59c

i played around with this exact mechanism in
https://github.com/ben-wes/pure-data/tree/feat/preserve-default-colors
you can choose the "default" color with a new button in the gui
properties. currently, this "default" color is internally handled as
#FFFFFFFF (saved as "default" though), which is probably not a good
solution. so obviously, this is merely a crude proof of concept. but
feel free to test it for further discussion.

cheers,
ben

On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM Chris McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 08/08/2025 17:07, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
> > I've set the following colors with Pd 0.56.0 "#e6e6e6 #202020 #0084ff"
> > and it looks great, but when I put a bang, when that is not selected, it
> > appears almost as a white rectangle, with its black circle being almost
> > invisible (it is a bit more visible when I zoom in the patch). When I
> > put a toggle, the two look almost identical, unless I click on the
> > toggle and its X appears in it. A radio also appears as a white
> > rectangle, with the lines that separate its cells being almost invisible.
> >
> > Also, when setting a label to the GUI objects, this is almost invisible
> > because its default color is black. I know I can change that in its
> > settings, but is there a way to set this at start-up, as I do with the
> > colors message by setting it in Preferences -> Startup?
>
> It would even be good if there was a way to pick a new "color" in the
> IEM GUI color picker called "default" which then uses the color from
> Pd's bg for Background and Pd's fg for Front and Label.
>
> Then later there could be a flag or setting "use Pd colors for new IEM
> guis" so that all newly created ones start with that default color set.
> Moving forward that would allow patching with better aesthetic consistency.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
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