To be clear, my only concern with assignment using hex values, is that I cannot redefine their value, as I can with named values, such as "black" or "white". 

To respond to Dan, my concern with the white background is not only eye discomfort from glare, but also light spill during performance. I'm looking to control lighting when capturing hand gestures that drive graphics. A fully white screen becomes a potential problem then. 

Cheers

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024, 1:31 AM Miller Puckette <mpuckette@cloud.ucsd.edu> wrote:
I think you can now use any hex color you want - I avoided those in the
90s when a lot of screens were color-mapped but that's a rarity nowadays.

cheers

Miller

On 9/27/24 5:44 AM, Andrew Lyons wrote:
> Good to see there's a plan in gestation. I may well check out pdnext,
> but for now, I managed to change the white background to gray30. That
> has helped.
>
> Some grep output:
>
> tcl/pdwindow.tcl:336:        .pdwindow.tcl.entry configure -background
> "gray30"
> tcl/pdwindow.tcl:407:    option add *PdWindow*Text.background "gray30"
> startupFile
> tcl/pdwindow.tcl:408:    option add *PdWindow*Entry.background
> "gray30" startupFile
> tcl/pdwindow.tcl:438:        -background gray30 -foreground gray88 \
> tcl/pdtk_canvas.tcl:134:        -background gray30
>
> I used this tk rgb color map to lookup the names:
> https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TkCmd/colors.htm
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TkCmd/colors.htm__;!!Mih3wA!Cz0jjoMNDzX3pxOS9ONvTv2Z5Tu6hv9mmd2KHRBk8PXiRjat91-SyfRkYYqg42qiSx3TM_caMl-hEA$>
>
> I did see a lot of hex colors in the c code when I grepped for
> "color". That gave me pause, and undermined the idea that I might be
> able to make a brute force global change to the color palette used by
> tk on my system:
> https://www.sci.utah.edu/~chris/SCIRun/tcl/tk/tkColor.c
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sci.utah.edu/*chris/SCIRun/tcl/tk/tkColor.c__;fg!!Mih3wA!Cz0jjoMNDzX3pxOS9ONvTv2Z5Tu6hv9mmd2KHRBk8PXiRjat91-SyfRkYYqg42qiSx3TM_d1u7o6Lw$>
>
> Thanks for the info and advice!
>
> Cheers
>
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>
> On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 00:34, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
> wrote:
>
>     On 9/26/24 07:26, Andrew Lyons wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I'm looking to modify vanilla src to hard code a dark color
>     scheme. Just
>     > something quick and easy.
>
>
>     https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1482
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>
>     >
>     > Any pointers on where in the src I find default colors? Doesn't
>     seem to be
>     > in the tcl directory...
>
>     it's mostly hardcoded in the C-sources.
>
>
>     gdasrm
>     IOhannes
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