Can I set custom colors in G4P?

Floritude

I'd like to choose my own text and background colors in a GLabel. I can't find an example that sets custom colors or makes a custom scheme, and the reference for GCScheme doesn't seem to support custom user schemes.

Is there any way for me to tell a label, "use this color for the text, and this color for the background" for colors of my own choosing?

quark

Unfortunately not easily. You can define your own color scheme read this discussion to start with.

Floritude

Thanks, Quark! I'm happy to do that. Can you give me some guidance on how to interpret the user_gui_palette.png file so my new colors work properly? It looks like there's a dark-to-white ramp in columns 2 through 7 (starting with 0), but I don't know how to interpret the other columns.

quark

Each horizontal row is a color scheme.

IMPORTANT Use your own colors but roughly match the brightness in each column.

I suggest that you just give it a try by creating and modifying the png. Unfortunately there is no real documentation on this.

Floritude

For future persons who are looking for an answer to this question, here's what I found. My UI right now uses only labels, sliders, buttons, check boxes, and text boxes, so that's all that I have data on. Here's the function of each box in a row of the user_gui_palette.png file, left to right starting with 0. This is not definitive or complete; it's just what I found by experimenting.

• 0: [nothing observed]
• 1: slider ticks
• 2: text
• 3: outlines of sliders and buttons
• 4: button background
• 5: slider internal fill
• 6: label background
• 7: text box background
• 8-15: [nothing observed]