[PD] data structures - color?

[Miller Puckette]

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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