I am new and started with vanilla pd on raspi 4 - working ok so far.
I am looking foŕ a possibility to get a darker layout.
What I found looks promising, but I can't get running - seems to be too old?

https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/8555/gui-objects-and-color-scheme

Even a very simple .tcl file seems to get loaded, but has no influence on what's happening:

set ::canvas_fill "Black"
set ::signal_cord "IndianRed"
set ::signal_nlet "IndianRed"
set ::msg_cord "DodgerBlue"
set ::msg_nlet "DodgerBlue"
set ::atom_box_fill "MintCream"
set ::msg_box_fill "MintCream"
set ::obj_box_fill "MintCream"
set ::box_outline "Black"
set ::graph_outline "Black"```

What's wrong? Can I get release for my eyes :sunglasses: Thank you

@ejoo Hi, currently vanilla doesn't support tk color hooks. However, I have a branch which does that is only a few commits behind HEAD.
https://github.com/sebshader/pure-data/tree/colors
(The names are somewhat different than in extended, as discussed in this pr:)
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196

you have to compile yourself.. there is an example scheme in doc/7.stuff/colors-plugin.txt (change the extension to .tcl and put it in your path, and you can then edit (or remove for defaults) the values below line 43:
array set ::pd_colors {
e.g.

array set ::pd_colors {
canvas_fill "Black"
signal_cord "IndianRed"
signal_iolet "IndianRed"
msg_cord "DodgerBlue"
msg_iolet "DodgerBlue"
atom_box_fill "MintCream"
msg_box_fill "MintCream"
obj_box_fill "MintCream"
obj_box_outline "Black"
msg_box_outline "Black"
atom_box_outline "Black"
graph_outline "Black"
}

there are also more colors than were settable in extended including colors for GOP box, array values, console window, help browser, and [text] object windows
I have an osx binary btw if anyone wants one

edit: graph_outline as black? .. maybe that was different in extended but it doesn't show up against the black canvas
& I would also recommend setting "comment" to MintCream or something

Hi, thanks. I will compile for patchbox os on raspi 4 and check it out :D
Edit: the colors, well yes. I was just fumbling around at last. Just changed the canvas fill from something like blue to black.

if you are okay with using externals you can do that with ofelia too: https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/12120/ofelia-sys_gui/2

and there are also hcs/sys_gui and and hcs/canvas_name if you want to do it from within a patch and are ok w/externals

edit: I just remembered this in the ofelia thread as well, @whale-av created a tcl plugin to re-configure everything any time the edit mode changes
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9960/tcl-for-a-rainy-day/23

the upside of this is that it works in vanilla

the downside for all of these is that every time you create a new canvas item you would need to rerun/bind the relevant commands? so you would need some kind of hook on item creation to send those commands/configure the item unless you're ok with vanilla colors until you run the tcl commands again manually or from some binding (like switching to edit mode)

perhaps it's possible to do it in vanilla with some kind of binding/parsing in tcl for the specific draw commands but tbh that seems pretty cumber/troublesome
the tk "option" command doesn't seem to work with canvas items either