wearing sunglasses using pure data

[bjarnenorheim]

Hi all!

Anyone know how to change the white bacground in PD to something more comfortable?

[Zyxoas]

"I wear my sunglasses at night..."

[jobromedia]

Thought this was a new intresting topic, but no...

[bjarnenorheim]

Oky , i post the question in the pd forum - sorry for boring you

[Zyxoas]

Apology accepted...

[j_p]

You could always put in a canvas and change the colour/size properties - you would have to add it first though, otherwise it would just hide everything else.

[TristanWilliams]

Buy some tinted transparent perspex in the colour of your choice.

[bjarnenorheim]

Nice idea but coloured perspex make my computer crash

[Zyxoas]

That's very plausible.

[shamann]

I had a quick look through the documents for pd, I couldn't find anything that suggested you could change the colours globally. Might be hidden away in a config file somewhere.

[FEV]

I had a quick look through the documents for pd, I couldn't find anything that suggested you could change the colours globally. Might be hidden away in a config file somewhere.

The GUI for pd is written in TCL/TK script <pd-dir>/bin/pd.tk .
Open it in some text editor and look for a section:

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############# pdtk_canvas_new -- create a new canvas ###############

Somewhere in that section there should be a line like this:

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canvas $name.c -width $width -height $height -background white \
    	-yscrollcommand "$name.scrollvert set" \
    	-xscrollcommand "$name.scrollhort set" \
	-scrollregion [concat 0 0 $width $height] 

Just change the "background" parameter to whatever you like (you may use one of these color definitions or use html color description style like #f0f0f0).

cheers,
Bart

[allofdrab]

[bjarnenorheim]

megathanks!!

[bjarnenorheim]

Would it be kind of the same procedure to change background colour in max/msp

[bjarnenorheim]

Nope - not the same procedure !