[PD] New color format in patch source

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 17:28:10 CEST 2021


On Fri, 2021-09-10 at 17:13 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 9/10/21 5:07 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > Hey all
> > 
> > I'm using current git master and found that the way color
> > information
> > of iemguis is stored in the patch file has changed. The number
> > representing 6-bit-per-channel rgb values got replaced by a
> > hexadecimal
> > encoding like '#dfdfdf'. That is a huge advantage, but how far back
> > are
> > such patches compatible? What is the oldest version of Pd that
> > loads
> > patches using hex color codes correctly?
> 
> iirc, it's Pd-0.48.

Ah, cool. Pd versions from current distro releases are covered, then.

> 
> if you target older Pd's use [; pd compatibility 0.47(

Thanks for the hint. For me, recent features are often too attractive
to care about such old versions ;-)

Roman
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