[PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

[João Pais]

>>>> A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of
>>>> having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite
>>>> interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at
>>>> home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us
>>>> where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color
>>>> codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet
>>>> to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too
>>>> much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.
>>>
>>> Sounds useful, patches welcome!
>>
>> actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it
>> would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then
>> just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more
>> sense with the current pd structure.
>
>
> you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:

great. I can do a pd patch with a GUI to set up these parameters (I just  
can't say yet when it will be finished).
But I still think that it would be better if these settings would be read  
by pd itself, and loaded through a patch by the user. For example, the  
patch I c(w)ould write would output a text file with the pd-theme, and pd  
would access this file on startup (then an extra parameter would be added  
to pd).

I also think that the settings should at a later point be done in Tcl/Tk  
menus, but for now I guess the xxx.pd-theme text file would be enough. An  
even more mature option would be a tcl/tk dynamic window/menu with all the  
themes stored on the path, and it would only be necessary to click on one  
to make it work.

but first things first: if anyone wants really to work in it and has no  
hurry, I can start up the "pd theme chooser".


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