On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 16:09, Duke Normandin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> >
> >> The Skim development teams is pleased to announce that Skim 1.3.4 is
> >> available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/> or
> >> using the built-in updater.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >>  *  New hidden preference for page background color.
> >
> > Thank you so much! There's _a lot_ of folks who will want to kiss your
> > feet for that act of kindness.
> >
> > And so I tried:
> >
> > defaults write -app Skim -SKPageBackgroundColor -data ababab
> >
> > My system didn't puke an error message, but the color didn't change,
> > so I'm sending the wrong arguments. Would you give an example of the
> > proper syntax and allowed values for "color"? TIA...
> > --
> > duke
>

> The data is an archived NSColor object, so it's not something you
> can ever guess, the only way I can ever think of setting it is
> copying the data from some other preference containing a color. But
> you can also set it as an array of 1-4 floats (as it says on the
> Wiki), for instance

> defaults write -app Skim -SKPageBackgroundColor -array -float 1.0 -float 1.0 
> -float 1.0 -float 1.0

What do the floating-point integers stand for? 1st two for fg color;
last 2 for bg color? I'm used to writing RGB color codes as hex
triplets like #ababab, so the 4 float thing is not obvious to me.

> And moreover you can set it using AppleScript.

Don't know AppleScript; would know where to begin or how to use
it. The "defaults" way seems the best.
-- 
duke

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