MUI_Palette

Palette.mui

Super class

Group.mui

Background

OBSOLETE! There are better ways to define colors now. Check out Poppen class for an example.

OLD DOCUMENTATION: Palette class generates a (big) group of objects, alltogether making up a powerful palette requester. Due to the new color selection schemes of Kickstart 3.x, you won't get a "traditional" palette requester with 2^n fields to fill in. These things really stop making sense on nice 256 or true color screens.

Instead, MUI's palette class allows defining a list of colors that the user should be able to adjust. Within a public screen manager, this would e.g. be the DrawInfo pens for a specific screen, within a terminal program maybe the eight ANSI colors.

Palette class uses a listview to let the user choose the desired color, a coloradjust object to adjust this color and a colorfield object that always shows the current color.

The user will also be able to concatenate several colors in the list, defining a single color for several entries.

Attributes

Attribute	Version	ISG	Type
MUIA_Palette_Entries	V6	I.G	struct MUI_Palette_Entry *
MUIA_Palette_Groupable	V6	ISG	BOOL
MUIA_Palette_Names	V6	ISG	STRPTR *

MUIA_Palette_Entries

NAME

MUIA_Palette_Entries -- V6 [I.G], struct MUI_Palette_Entry *, 0x8042a3d8

FUNCTION

Specify the colors that the user should be able to adjust with this palette object.

You supply an array of MUI_Palette_Structures here, each entry defining one color:

struct MUI_Palette_Entry
{
  LONG  mpe_ID;
  ULONG mpe_Red;
  ULONG mpe_Green;
  ULONG mpe_Blue;
  LONG  mpe_Group;
};

mpe_ID This entry is not used by palette class, you can put in whatever you want, except the value MUIV_Palette_Entry_End (==-1), which terminates the array.

mpe_Red 32-bit red component of the current color. This field will be changed by palette class whenever the user edits the color.

mpe_Green 32-bit green component of the current color. This field will be changed by palette class whenever the user edits the color.

mpe_Blue 32-bit blue component of the current color. This field will be changed by palette class whenever the user edits the color.

mpe_Group Entries with the same mpe_Group value are concatenated. Whenever a new color in the listview is selected, all other colors with the same mpe_Group get selected as well and get adjusted all at once. Entry concatenation can be changed by the user, as long as you don't disable this feature with the MUIA_Palette_Groupable attribute.

EXAMPLE

static struct MUI_Palette_Entry SystemDefaultPalette[] =
{
  { TEXTPEN,          0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 2 },
  { SHINEPEN,         0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 4 },
  { SHADOWPEN,        0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 5 },
  { FILLPEN,          0x66666666, 0x88888888, 0xbbbbbbbb, 3 },
  { FILLTEXTPEN,      0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 6 },
  { BACKGROUNDPEN,    0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 7 },
  { HIGHLIGHTTEXTPEN, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 8 },
  { BARDETAILPEN,     0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 9 },
  { BARBLOCKPEN,      0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 1 },
  { BARTRIMPEN,       0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0 },
  { MUIV_Palette_Entry_End, 0, 0, 0, 0 },
};

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Palette_Names

MUIA_Palette_Groupable

NAME

MUIA_Palette_Groupable -- V6 [ISG], BOOL, 0x80423e67

FUNCTION

Enables/disables palette color grouping.

Defaults to TRUE.

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Palette_Entries

MUIA_Palette_Names

NAME

MUIA_Palette_Names -- V6 [ISG], STRPTR *, 0x8042c3a2

FUNCTION

Specify the names of a palette objects color entries. Without names, the color listview just displays "Color " for each entry. If you supply an array of names here, they are displayed instead. The names array must have as many entries as the array of MUI_Palette_Entry structures (without its terminator).

EXAMPLE

static struct MUI_Palette_Entry ColorEntries[] =
{
  { TEXTPEN,          0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 2 },
  { SHINEPEN,         0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 4 },
  { SHADOWPEN,        0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 5 },
  { FILLPEN,          0x66666666, 0x88888888, 0xbbbbbbbb, 3 },
  { FILLTEXTPEN,      0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 6 },
  { BACKGROUNDPEN,    0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 7 },
  { HIGHLIGHTTEXTPEN, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 8 },
  { BARDETAILPEN,     0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 9 },
  { BARBLOCKPEN,      0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 1 },
  { BARTRIMPEN,       0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0 },
  { MUIV_Palette_Entry_End, 0, 0, 0, 0 },
};

static const char *ColorNames[] =
{
  "Text"                ,
  "Bright Edges"        ,
  "Dark Edges"          ,
  "Active Window Bars"  ,
  "Active Window Titles",
  "Background"          ,
  "Important Text"      ,
  "Menu Text"           ,
  "Menu Background"     ,
  "Menu Line"
};

po = PaletteObject,
  MUIA_Palette_Entries, ColorEntries,
  MUIA_Palette_Names, ColorNames,
  End;

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Palette_Entries

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