[PD] [PD-announce] pd 0.47-0test2 released

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 15:49 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> It looks like the new color handling has made teh "color" message work
> more coherently.  In the past, if "color" had two arguments they were
> interpreted as background, foreground, and label color, but if only
> two were supplied theyt were the foreground and label colors (without
> setting background color). 

Actually, a color message with two arguments sets background and label,
leaving foreground color unchanged (in Pd <= 0.46).

>  I think the old behavior is horribly confusing.

Until now, I wasn't aware that all iemguis behave the same regarding
colors. The new behavior would have worked for old versions of Pd, but
it never occurred to me, since the documentation for  [cnv] clearly
suggests using only two arguments (background, label), while all other
iemguis require three arguments. Thus, I used only two arguments
whenever setting the label color for [cnv]s dynamically. The change of
behavior breaks quite a few patches of mine. This doesn't mean I'm
opposed to introducing sanity in that matter (it's quite easy to fix),
but I'm wondering how many other patches with non-trivial GUI designs
would be affected.

> I'm not sure whether to consider it a bug or a 'feature' - and whether
> back compatibility is more important than making the color-settings sane.

I'm not even sure what is more sane. The new behavior forces the use of
a redundant middle argument when setting the label of a [cnv].

Roman


 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:47:38PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > I'm glad to see the release that includes deken is out now.
> > 
> > One minor thing still apparent in the test2 release: The second argument
> > of the 'color' message to a [cnv] object does not change the text color
> > anymore in Pd 0.47. Text color can be changed by providing a _third_
> > argument, though. 
> > 
> > See attached patch.
> > 
> > Cheers and thanks for all the work gone into that release,
> > Roman
> > 

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