Re: [Skim-app-users] names for color values

[Peter R. <pet...@by...>]

Christiaan,
   Thanks for the quick reply. It's been a while since I reset my toolbar
and I've just been using the default "favorite colors" pallet. I didn't
realize there was also a color picker that offered a continuous spectrum. As
nice as that is, though, for my purposes, I can set up a statement to use
the default colors. I'm playing around with building a program to analyze
the text from my notes. The color I give to my notes has meaning to me, so
it's important to export that info, too. Listing the RGB values doesn't do
me much good since I'm going to be searching the notes textually. Since I
know I have a fixed "favorite colors" pallet, I'll just use those to
determine my conditional keys. If it's anything else, I'll just have to
export a string with an rgb value.

Thanks!

-peter-

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>wrote:

>
> On Jun 12, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Peter Rich wrote:
>
> > I've been using Skim for a while now, but just recently realized I
> > could create my own export templates (I know, I should read the Wiki
> > more often). Anyhow, I wanted to export a simple plain text document
> > that had the color of the note in addition to the type. In looking
> > at the value keys, though, I realized that the color is determined
> > by separate red, green, and blue values. Is there any way to use a
> > condition tag to say, "if red=xxx AND blue=xxx AND green = xxx then
> > color = 'yellow'?" Since we can only pick our colors from a
> > restricted pallet anyway, these rgb combinations are going to be a
> > fixed set, so I can easily know which combos to expect and what
> > their associated name is.
> >
> > Is something like this possible?
> >
> > --
> > Peter Rich, PhD
> > peter_rich [at] byu [dot] edu
> > Instructional Psychology & Technology
> > Brigham Young University
> > Provo, Ut 84602
>
> Not really. First of all: why are you saying you have a fixed palette?
> Currently you can choose colors virtually continuously. There is no
> deterministic way to map a (continuous) color to a color name, because
> there's only a finite (very limited) number of color names.
>
> If you can figure out a set of rules for the few colors that you
> personally you will always use and get names for them, you could do
> this by adding condition tags to the template. Something like this
> (though probably even more complicated):
>
> <$color.redComponent<0.3?>
> <$color.greenComponent<0.3?>
> <$color.blueComponent<0.3?>
> black
> <?$color.blueComponent<0.6?>
> dark blue
> <?$color.blueComponent?>
> blue
> </$color. blueComponent?>
> <?$color.greenComponent<0.6?>
> ...
> <?$color.greenComponent?>
> ...
> </$color.greenComponent?>
> <?$color.redComponent<0.6?>
> ...
> <?$color.redComponent?>
> ...
> </$color. redComponent?>
>
>
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-- 
Peter Rich, PhD
peter_rich [at] byu [dot] edu
Instructional Psychology & Technology
Brigham Young University
Provo, Ut 84602