[PD] data structures - color?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You could probably make one function be a wrapper to the other, which  
wouldn't be so bad...

It would be really nice to have one color format throughout Pd, when  
its GUI objects, data structures, Gem, PDP, etc.  0-1 for R,G,B seems  
to be a natural for Pd.  It would also have the added benefit of  
making patches with color work the same no matter what the color  
depth (e.g. 0.5,0.5,0.5 would always be middle grey, whether on 4- 
bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, or 24-bit).

.hc

On Mar 28, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> The reason to use a single number as a color was because 3-component
> colors in a data structure drawing command just seemed too unwieldly.
> But I'm starting to wonder if this was truly a wise decision to make.
> The trouble now is it would mean having two versions of every drawing
> instruction, yuck!
>
> M
>
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:48:07AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2006, at 2:42 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>> Hallo,
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think floats would be simplest, tho there would be three atoms in
>>>> place of one.
>>>
>>> Which is a problem, because a one-element specification for  
>>> colors is
>>> needed as well (e.g. to pass colors as abstraction arguments, in  
>>> data
>>> structures etc.)
>>
>> What makes this requirement one element for color?  Changing the
>> format will break backwards compatibility anyway, so you could change
>> one to three elements.  I think 3 floats would make things much
>> easier to use, like [colorRGB].
>>
>>> Personally I like hex colors, but I'm used to them from web work.
>>
>> If it must be one element, then hex colors would be the way.
>>
>> .hc
>>
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