<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3316">What I mean is that iemgui color format is so complicated and </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3389">difficult to understand, saying "represents white" is probably </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span>the most </span>accurate way to explain how that number maps to a </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr">human readable color.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_4292">On the bright side, this thread has convinced me not to add an </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_4293">animation api in my GUI port. While I think it would serve my own </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_4294">peculiar interests just fine, I really don't understand the </span>implications </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr">for more sophisticated use-cases. (And I can easily imagine a user </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr">getting stuck because I didn't consider the downsides of my approach.)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr">-Jonathan</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452541714020_3274" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, January 11, 2016 3:08 AM, Roman Haefeli <reduzent@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 22:08 +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> > This limitation is worked-around by reducing the resolution to 6<br clear="none">> bits per <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> > channel. The highest number (the one representing white) is -262144.<br clear="none">> It does <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> > not exceed 6 digits and can be stored at full precision.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> It's probably worth explaining why you say "the one representing<br clear="none">> white" and not simply "white". <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Oh, I'd attribute this to my tendency to sometimes express things too<br clear="none">verbosely.<div class="yqt2320882091" id="yqtfd06916"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> (I.e., what every other sane color format calls "white" does <br clear="none">> not equal what iemgui's file color format calls -262144.)</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I wasn't thinking of that, but you're right. It's not possible to create<br clear="none">white (as in #ffffff) iemguis dynamically. If one needs white, one needs<br clear="none">to set the color by message. But still when you save it in the patch, it<br clear="none">won't be white on the next patch load. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Roman <div class="yqt2320882091" id="yqtfd05760"><br clear="none"></div><br><div class="yqt2320882091" id="yqtfd81513">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br clear="none">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>