On 01/11/2016 09:31 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
What I mean is that iemgui color format is so complicated and difficult to understand, saying "represents white" is probably the most accurate way to explain how that number maps to a human readable color.
i took this conversation as a trigger to finally implement symbolic names for the iemguis:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/patches/569/
as far as possible, it's backwards compatible (that is: patches saved with old Pds can be read; patches saved with new Pds can be forced into legacy mode).
it should make naming colors much more easy.
gmards IOhannes