Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-21 Thread Atte André Jensen
marius schebella wrote: > you have to send a message like "color 16" to the canvas, Thanks, exactly what I was looking for! -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk __

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-19 Thread marius schebella
Atte André Jensen wrote: > marius schebella wrote: > >> either put a canvas in the background and change it via send/receive > > This seems like an easy thing, but I get "cnv: no method for 'float'". > What message could I send to a canvas to make it red? you have to send a message like "color

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-19 Thread Jack
Here a patch that use the easiest way to change the color of the canvas and to get it red. You can access of all settings with a 'help' on the canvas. ++ Jack changeColorCanvas.pd Description: Binary data Le 19 juil. 08 à 13:10, Atte André Jensen a écrit : marius schebella wrote: eit

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-19 Thread Atte André Jensen
marius schebella wrote: > either put a canvas in the background and change it via send/receive This seems like an easy thing, but I get "cnv: no method for 'float'". What message could I send to a canvas to make it red? > or > use sys_gui in combination with hcs/canvas_name which lets you chan

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-17 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Yeah, you could probably use the float value of $0 to generate the color. .hc On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:18 PM, marius schebella wrote: > hi, > either put a canvas in the background and change it via send/ > receive or > use sys_gui in combination with hcs/canvas_name which lets you change > the

Re: [PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-17 Thread marius schebella
hi, either put a canvas in the background and change it via send/receive or use sys_gui in combination with hcs/canvas_name which lets you change the font/bg colors of your patch dynamically. marius. Atte André Jensen wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible (for reasons of visual feedback) to change th

[PD] background color of instances of abstraction

2008-07-17 Thread Atte André Jensen
Hi Is it possible (for reasons of visual feedback) to change the background color of one instance of an abstraction? It's an abstraction where only one instance is active at the time, so I'd like to change the background color of the active one. Is obviously should be done programatically from