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** [patches:#569] load/save iemgui colors as symbols rather than numbers**
**Status:** open **Group:** bugfix **Labels:** puredata pd-gui **Created:** Mon Jan 11, 2016 09:44 PM UTC by IOhannes m zmölnig **Last Updated:** Mon Jan 11, 2016 09:44 PM UTC **Owner:** Miller Puckette **Attachments:**
- [0001-updated-iemgui-s-color-functions-for-loading-saving.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/patches/569/attachment/0001-updated-iemg...) (88.8 kB; text/x-diff)
currently all iemgui-objects store the colors in some weirdo format, that tries to crunch 24bit unsigned numbers (RGB) into a float. this format has a number of shortcomings: - it cannot accurately represent all colors of the 24bit range - nobody understands it
the proposed patch changes this so that colors can now be given as symbols in a format that is directly understood by tcl/tk: e.g. `#FF0000` represents pure red (opposed to the currently used `-258049` which is the best approximation of red one can store...although it really is `#fc0000`).
### implementation details the old numeric format is still understood.
the patch implements: - setting the color via color-message, e.g. `[color #ff0000 #ff00ff #ffffff(` - loading "symbolic colors" in a patch - saving "symbolic colors" to the patch (optional)
however, *saving* symbolic colors is currently disabled, to allow for a migration away from the current scheme (that is: a Pd-patch saved will still be fully functional in older Pd-versions). the idea is to disable the compat-mode (by setting the default compatibility value to `0` in `g_all_guis.c:269` in the next release save one). setting a "pd_compatibility" to <48 will always save in the legacy format.
### english color names tcl/tk can understand a few english color names (such as `red`). the current implementation does **not** support this, as the colors are still handled as integers internally (to ease the implementation of the backwards compat mode)
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