Eric (on the share.dj list), or anyone else who may know out there in the ether..

I have an NSColorWell that triggers the following IBAction, that is sending its values to a bunch of NSSliders via this code:

• (IBAction)sendFontRGBA:(id)sender

{ oneColor = [sender color]; oneRed = [oneColor redComponent]; //floats declared in header oneBlue = [oneColor blueComponent]; //floats declared in header oneGreen = [oneColor greenComponent]; //floats declared in header
[oneInvisibleBlue setFloatValue:oneBlue]; // set the sliders to the color component.. [oneInvisibleGreen setFloatValue:oneGreen]; [oneInvisibleRed setFloatValue:oneRed]; }

Now, this works, and I can see the NSSlider Values change as I mess with the NSColorWell... however... im using Paradiddle, and the NSSliders (oneInvisibleGreen etc) are hooked up to send data to PD via their respective tooltip values. This *works* (! and is very very cool), but only if I MANUALLY CLICK THE SLIDERS and trigger some sort of NSEvent, not if the NSColorWell programatically sets them.

How can I force NSSLider to act like it has been mouse clicked so I can use a freaking COLOR WELL in PD instead of a bunch of fucking sliders??? This is an extreme hack that I shouldnt have to do anyway.. as Paradiddle should automatically take the float argb values from the NSColorWell and shoot them over to PD anyway.. with this method eventually once it works the NSSliders will be invisible (thus my stupid name)..

anyone have any idea what im talking about? ;)

thanks. :)

By the way, if you want to make kick ass Pure Data interfaces and run PD on OS X, Paradiddle is *really kick ass*... check it out!