https://github.com/sebshader/pdnext/releases
what part of the code needs to be modified to set colors?

would really like something that works the same way cross-platform.
still no luck applying color changes to plain vanilla using either method.
but pdnext now seems to work

when modifying colors

set ::objtxt_color "#black" 

started causing a tcl error in the console

which seems to be fixed by switching "#black" to a hex value. so far the audio errors seemed to have stopped too. /(could also have been memory)

this was the error:

(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: invalid color name "#black"
    (processing "-fill" option)
    invoked from within
"$tkcanvas create text $x $y -tags $tags -text $text -fill $color  -anchor nw -font [get_font_for_size $font_size]"
    (procedure "pdtk_text_new" line 2)
    invoked from within
"pdtk_text_new .x1287928.c {.x1287928.t1288070 obj text} 193.000000 117.000000 {   } 10 $objtxt_color"
    ("uplevel" body line 3)
    invoked from within
"uplevel #0 $docmds"

is there any way of switching the cursor color when in edit mode? what i am wondering about is the blinking cursor when editing against dark backgrounds.

plain vanilla doesn't support colors (which is why I modded it along with different inlets/outlets/cords mainly with code from extended)

the named colors do not use # it's just "black". Glad to hear you got it working!

I don't know much about switching cursor color, you might want to check out the hcs library, I think you can change stuff about the cursor. Maybe in the next release I'll add some variables for it

sorry for the confusion.
does your version stay current with vanilla otherwise?
are there other things that are different apart from the stuff mentioned?

hyopothetically yes
it doesn't differ otherwise except for an included [initbang] and [closebang]

i could be wrong about this but i think i was able to change background color in vanilla using the kiosk plugin

by changing line 176 of kiosk-plugin.tcl

   $tkcanvas configure -background ""

but have no idea if other colors could be set using that also.

@youaresound Background colour you can change in vanilla without a plug-in by sending a message to [sys-gui]......... (if you copy it from extended into the vanilla extra folder).

colouring.pd

Or as @seb-harmonik.ar is (maybe, but maybe more complex) doing, you could change some of the tcl to give yourself extra menus......
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9991/woof-a-new-window-menu-for-vanilla-tcl

David.

I doubt many other colors can be changed this way considering the manual page of setPalette https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TkCmd/palette.htm

@seb-harmonik.ar Yes, just background I think. You must be rewriting C code I image to get the line traversal to work......?
David.

As I said above I usually just copied Pd-extended c code, though I did modify some myself for the GOP box, text highlight, and select box colors