So i've been making a theme for pd. I've pretty much themed everything, but when any pd object/comment/graph is edited, they are reset to PD's default colors (except for inlets & outlets).

Does anyone know if this is stored in the tcl or the C code?

I don't quite understand the itemconfig command yet, so I am having trouble figuring this out.

is it in pdtk_canvas, pdtk_text, or the g_canvas, g_all_guis?

On another note, the editmode event is called whenever a focus event is called.
I've been tossing around the idea of making an editable palette via a menu, but I'd like to refactor the geometry manager away from pack and into grid first.

thanks for reading and any input - have a good one.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I'm doing exactly what you were trying to do with woof http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9991/woof-a-new-window-menu-for-vanilla-tcl/3 - kudos

@Monetus Thanks!.....
Your plugin turns all of the screens dark grey in vanilla under win7. I will let you know what else when I have played around a bit........ With tk things should work across platforms. I was seriously diverted with woof, trying to use the tcl to good effect, and particularly interested in the widgets.
The wall I came up against was that calling a widget would always open another instance of wish, and then there would be no communication between the Pd wish and the new instance. I did a lot of reading, but as my only programming experience is from 1970's fortran and cobal it is a steep learning curve. Code with "top window" contains the clues though.
If I could understand how to open a widget within the Pd instance of wish then it must be possible to use the widget as an interface and communicate with Pd using variables.....

I stopped a while ago (always other things to do)......... here.......
try_again.zip
The woof folder goes in Pd/tcl/ and the patch contains everything that I got to work...... so far.
Projects goes in Pd/bin and is just a widget with a button and pop-up help.... but it's a start.

You will see in "neuron.tcl" (you should be able to open it from the patch message) why I was so keen to move forward with widgets......... Some of the woof folder is gibberish, as I am feeling my way through in the dark.

I wonder if someone on the list (Miller maybe) would be kind enough to document the c calls?

I will work through your post in the next few days....... I think you have somewhat more code literacy than me........ kudos back, and no return!
David

Well, I downloaded the hcs package for sys_gui and played around with your messages. I see you found the tk_setpalette command as well. That, along with the recursive proc in ketea and the itemconfigure command keeps everything colored, but I haven't found a way to call them as a window is mapped yet. And I don't think it would be good idea to call them as an array is constantly being redrawn. hmm...

While clicking your messages though (after changing wish8.5 to wish), I think that when I called the files from within the tcl folder that a sub-process was spawed and killed pretty fast. When I called the main.tcl in the bin folder, exactly what you described happened; another wish with a button for coloring things.

I'll go digging through your code and see what I can pull off.

@Monetus Hello again.......
Here is a plugin which can pop up a "good looking" selection list (shadows and all) programmable to open in the placement you wish on the os window, and in the same instance of wish.
It looks even better if your windows are pastel coloured.
Extended and vanilla.
Of course "woof" will not work unless you have left it in your Pd folders.

On selection from the list messages can be programmed to be sent to the open Pd window using the standard pd_menus.tcl , and so probably other things can be done, either through the included tcl, or by writing more code into the plugin.
pop.zip
The plugin goes anywhere in a pd path of course......
David.

@Monetus and any variable that you know the name (of) can be addressed directly from the patch. Once again, a plugin will be required to get it's value and return it to the patch......
stuff.pd
David.

Hey @whale-av check out this theme plugin if your pd version uses tk > 8.4.

I made a pop-up window and it saves its state.

I think the osx retina build on github might have it bundled inside, not sure though.
edit: no, I didn't see it on the github. I downloaded mine off the pd-list.

ketea-theme-plugin.tcl

The big obstacle in making this perfect really is the fact that some colors are baked into the c calls. There might a be a proc or two more that I could overwrite, but things like the array being redrawn are not in the tcl code. ... pretty sure at least.

Fiddled around with it a bit, and now it works in vanilla's tcl 8.4. put it in your gui plugins folder, open pd, and hit cmd (or ctrl) + ' (single quote) to open the theme dialogWindow. It will save a file to your plugin folder and load it upon startup if you save a new palette.

I wondered pretty deep into ttk, but seeing as vanilla doesn't ship with 8.6 yet and that tiled widgets mixed with non-tiled tk widgets looks strange, I'm going to hold off on making an actual ttk theme in the code. Anyways, have a good one.

ketea-theme-plugin.tcl

@Monetus this is really neat, I've had a bit of play
Cheers Balwyn

Hi @Monetus, on vanilla 0.47 I get these errors:

UNHANDLED ERROR: bad event type or keysym "'"
while executing
"bind all <$::modifier-Key-'> {+dialog_theme::create_dialog .theme}"
(procedure "enact_theme_menu" line 292)
invoked from within
"enact_theme_menu"
("uplevel" body line 584)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 $tclcode"
FAILED TO LOAD /home/nicola/pd-externals/colours-plugin.tcl

I'm trying your theme on a Debian Stretch with tcl 8.5 and tcl 8.6