On Feb 17, 2010, at 18:41, Duke Normandin wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > >> On 02/17/10 08:19, "Duke Normandin" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >> >> It looks like they're RGBA color components. > > Geez! It's _so_ simple when the information is shared! > > I went to: > > http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/is_css3_rgba_ready_to_rock/ > > for a quick education on the subject. > > So I tried: > > defaults write -app Skim -SKPageBackgroundColor -array -float 171.0 > -float 171.0 -float 171.0 -float 1.0 > > which is #ababab. No joy! I'm definitely missing a piece of the > puzzle.
It's stated on the Wiki that the values range from 0 to 1, not 0 to 255 or something else. Remember that this is a HIDDEN pref. Which means that it is an advanced feature that is not supposed to be easy or even not guaranteed to be supported (as the Wiki also clearly states). > Should I not be able to go to Skim's: > > /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/Resources/InitialUserDefaults.plist > > and use the "Property List Editor.app" to set the values? I did try > that, but could not find "SKPageBackgroundColor". > -- > duke It's not in the initial defaults because by defaults it's not set. This is because by default NOTHING is drawn. This has been discussed on this list. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
