From: Mark H. <ma...@hy...> - 2004-10-29 00:03:46
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On Sun, 24, Oct, 2004 at 03:23:21PM +0100, Richard Bown spoke thus.. > On Sunday 24 October 2004 07:18, Silvan wrote: > > > So I was thinking why not just make the default colors take names for the > > colors themselves, like in Open Office. red 1, red 2, red 3, &c. > > Yeah, well I wanted this in the first place too - but Mark (Hymers - still > here?) argued against that quite vehemently I seem to remember at the time. > And as he coded it I demurred. Mind you, I did have to drop in a "hidden" > colour map for the user of controllers otherwise sharing colours across > application functions makes no sense. I think a shake down is probably in > order but not until after 1.0 of course. I'm still lurking... I didn't think that just putting the colour names in was particularly useful in a musical context and tried to group colours by instrument type to make it easier to work with initially. The idea is that you can see where you have different sections of the orchestra/band/whateveryoucallit doing what. I realise this is probably more applicable to 'classical' type composition than 'modern' type stuff. If that's bollocks then I can always run up a quick patch to change the defaults to simple colour names :-) Hopefully I'll get around to some proper coding again at some point... Mark -- Mark Hymers <mark at hymers dot org dot uk> "Everyone is entitled to be stupid but some abuse the privilege." Unknown |