Howdy all,
I don't use dark mode, so I never noticed this personally. I'm surprised it hasn't come up before, actually. From a short search, it seems the easiest fix is to tell the system to ignore dark mode for Pd so it will stay "light" but at least everything will be legible:
https://www.techjunkie.com/exclude-app-dark-mode-macos-mojave/ https://www.techjunkie.com/exclude-app-dark-mode-macos-mojave/
You can try it on your own by running the following in Terminal, then (re)starting the Pd gui:
defaults write org.puredata.pd-gui NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool true
What's happening is that some elements are being changed to dark mode while others clearly are not. For instance, some of the canvas draw commands pick up the light gray/white from dark mode but are drawn over a white background. This is down to how Tk handles/doesn't handle dark mode and the default colors specified to Tk from Pd.
A proper implementation of this would involve having light and dark color schemes for Pd and possibly the GUI while updating Tk to use the non-color specific tint defaults and handle the color mode change Cocoa events, if it doesn't already do so.
I will add a bug fix PR which sets this automatically when you start the GUI, as with a couple of other settings which Pd needs by default. I honestly do not have the time to dig any further into this, ie. full dark mode support.
On Aug 13, 2020, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:43:05 -0300 From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com mailto:porres@gmail.com> To: "Scott R. Looney" <scottrlooney@gmail.com mailto:scottrlooney@gmail.com>, Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at> Subject: Re: [PD] 0.51-1-test1 issues Message-ID: <CAEAsFmiJv-JYDZw4XX47gL8J0_RZWxinXw_4vuZJ2pwXzv_WiA@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAEAsFmiJv-JYDZw4XX47gL8J0_RZWxinXw_4vuZJ2pwXzv_WiA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi, I think we should address this in the pd list, I mean it as a request for the feature to be available out of the box ;) hence I'm replying and bringing this back to the list.
Anyway, here's Scott's message
Em qua., 12 de ago. de 2020 às 18:33, Scott R. Looney < scottrlooney@gmail.com mailto:scottrlooney@gmail.com> escreveu:
hey Alex saw your comment on dark mode - regarding dark mode as far as i know it's a pretty easy fix to change the default Tcl/Tk BG color . hit up Mike (Fress Prench) on Discord for details. here's the relevant info from his post:
*"Add this to the end of your pd-gui.tcl file (Applications/Pd/Contents/Resources/tcl) option add *PatchWindow*Canvas.background #ffe5b5"*
best, scott
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:22 PM Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com mailto:porres@gmail.com> wrote:
btw, having dark mode working on macos and other systems would be wonderful for owls like me who spent the night patching :)
Em qua., 12 de ago. de 2020 às 18:13, ffdd cchh <camarafede@gmail.com mailto:camarafede@gmail.com> escreveu:
Hi Alex, et al,
Some comments on colors in macos: I also see the greyish on the wish app (using Wish Tk 8.6.10 compiled or from software.html). That is while you have the Light Appearance enabled. Try switching your mac to Dark Appearance on your System Preferences, and you'll note that the greyish turns blackish (!). Most concerning: while cords and object boxes are bright, everything else is almost invisible.
Dan Wilcox @danomatika http://twitter.com/danomatika danomatika.com http://danomatika.com/ robotcowboy.com http://robotcowboy.com/
Fix is here: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1119 https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1119
To answer my own point: We haven't seen this before as we were still using the older Tcl/Tk 8.5 frameworks on macOS. Moving to 8.6 seems to have enabled awareness of light/dark mode, but we haven't added handling for this in our GUI tcl yet.
On Aug 13, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy all,
I don't use dark mode, so I never noticed this personally. I'm surprised it hasn't come up before, actually. From a short search, it seems the easiest fix is to tell the system to ignore dark mode for Pd so it will stay "light" but at least everything will be legible:
https://www.techjunkie.com/exclude-app-dark-mode-macos-mojave/ https://www.techjunkie.com/exclude-app-dark-mode-macos-mojave/
You can try it on your own by running the following in Terminal, then (re)starting the Pd gui:
defaults write org.puredata.pd-gui NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool trueWhat's happening is that some elements are being changed to dark mode while others clearly are not. For instance, some of the canvas draw commands pick up the light gray/white from dark mode but are drawn over a white background. This is down to how Tk handles/doesn't handle dark mode and the default colors specified to Tk from Pd.
A proper implementation of this would involve having light and dark color schemes for Pd and possibly the GUI while updating Tk to use the non-color specific tint defaults and handle the color mode change Cocoa events, if it doesn't already do so.
I will add a bug fix PR which sets this automatically when you start the GUI, as with a couple of other settings which Pd needs by default. I honestly do not have the time to dig any further into this, ie. full dark mode support.
On Aug 13, 2020, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:43:05 -0300 From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com mailto:porres@gmail.com> To: "Scott R. Looney" <scottrlooney@gmail.com mailto:scottrlooney@gmail.com>, Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at> Subject: Re: [PD] 0.51-1-test1 issues Message-ID: <CAEAsFmiJv-JYDZw4XX47gL8J0_RZWxinXw_4vuZJ2pwXzv_WiA@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAEAsFmiJv-JYDZw4XX47gL8J0_RZWxinXw_4vuZJ2pwXzv_WiA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi, I think we should address this in the pd list, I mean it as a request for the feature to be available out of the box ;) hence I'm replying and bringing this back to the list.
Anyway, here's Scott's message
Em qua., 12 de ago. de 2020 às 18:33, Scott R. Looney < scottrlooney@gmail.com mailto:scottrlooney@gmail.com> escreveu:
hey Alex saw your comment on dark mode - regarding dark mode as far as i know it's a pretty easy fix to change the default Tcl/Tk BG color . hit up Mike (Fress Prench) on Discord for details. here's the relevant info from his post:
*"Add this to the end of your pd-gui.tcl file (Applications/Pd/Contents/Resources/tcl) option add *PatchWindow*Canvas.background #ffe5b5"*
best, scott
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:22 PM Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com mailto:porres@gmail.com> wrote:
btw, having dark mode working on macos and other systems would be wonderful for owls like me who spent the night patching :)
Em qua., 12 de ago. de 2020 às 18:13, ffdd cchh <camarafede@gmail.com mailto:camarafede@gmail.com> escreveu:
Hi Alex, et al,
Some comments on colors in macos: I also see the greyish on the wish app (using Wish Tk 8.6.10 compiled or from software.html). That is while you have the Light Appearance enabled. Try switching your mac to Dark Appearance on your System Preferences, and you'll note that the greyish turns blackish (!). Most concerning: while cords and object boxes are bright, everything else is almost invisible.
Dan Wilcox @danomatika http://twitter.com/danomatika danomatika.com http://danomatika.com/ robotcowboy.com http://robotcowboy.com/
Dan Wilcox @danomatika http://twitter.com/danomatika danomatika.com http://danomatika.com/ robotcowboy.com http://robotcowboy.com/
Em qui., 13 de ago. de 2020 às 09:44, Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com escreveu:
Howdy all,
I don't use dark mode, so I never noticed this personally. I'm surprised it hasn't come up before
but why would it, is this an issue for 0.51-0? I tested here and it's all fine, and. also don't have that issue for 0.51-1 - or is this an issue only for catalina and the upcoming big sur? Just to be clear, as I'm sure you're right on spot
A proper implementation of this would involve having light and dark color
schemes for Pd and possibly the GUI while updating Tk to use the non-color specific tint defaults and handle the color mode change Cocoa events, if it doesn't already do so.
I will add a bug fix PR which sets this automatically when you start the GUI, as with a couple of other settings which Pd needs by default. I honestly do not have the time to dig any further into this, ie. full dark mode support.
there's also this oldest feature PR on github https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196 which opens the door to setting user defined color schemes and plugins for it. I think it is ready to go. With this one merged, I imagine it wouldn't be hard to have a setting inside Pd to change/switch modes, and we could have some hardcoded ones, such as "regular", "dark", "Pd extended-like"
On Aug 13, 2020, at 8:04 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres porres@gmail.com wrote:
I will add a bug fix PR which sets this automatically when you start the GUI, as with a couple of other settings which Pd needs by default. I honestly do not have the time to dig any further into this, ie. full dark mode support.
there's also this oldest feature PR on github https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196 https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196 which opens the door to setting user defined color schemes and plugins for it. I think it is ready to go. With this one merged, I imagine it wouldn't be hard to have a setting inside Pd to change/switch modes, and we could have some hardcoded ones, such as "regular", "dark", "Pd extended-like"
I'm referring less to the canvas and more to the rest of the GUI. Most widgets and windows have explicit colors set such as light gray, etc. If you only implement canvas color schemes, the windows will still all be light.
Dan Wilcox @danomatika http://twitter.com/danomatika danomatika.com http://danomatika.com/ robotcowboy.com http://robotcowboy.com/
Whoops, I put the wrong domain, it should be "org.puredata.pd.pd-gui" so Terminal command is actually:
defaults write org.puredata.pd.pd-gui NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool true
On Aug 13, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com wrote:
You can try it on your own by running the following in Terminal, then (re)starting the Pd gui:
defaults write org.puredata.pd-gui NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool true
Dan Wilcox @danomatika http://twitter.com/danomatika danomatika.com http://danomatika.com/ robotcowboy.com http://robotcowboy.com/
It looks as though you could change the whole palette to e.g. a dark mode, without changing any other drawing code: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/palette.htm
Martin
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:36 PM Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 13, 2020, at 8:04 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres porres@gmail.com wrote:
I will add a bug fix PR which sets this automatically when you start the GUI, as with a couple of other settings which Pd needs by default. I honestly do not have the time to dig any further into this, ie. full dark mode support.
there's also this oldest feature PR on github https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196 which opens the door to setting user defined color schemes and plugins for it. I think it is ready to go. With this one merged, I imagine it wouldn't be hard to have a setting inside Pd to change/switch modes, and we could have some hardcoded ones, such as "regular", "dark", "Pd extended-like"
I'm referring less to the canvas and more to the rest of the GUI. Most widgets and windows have explicit colors set such as light gray, etc. If you only implement canvas color schemes, the windows will still all be light.
Dan Wilcox @danomatika danomatika.com robotcowboy.com
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