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Track and take colours
Hey guys. I was wondering is there a way to make Osara report track and take colours. Often when working with other producers they use a colour system for kinds of tracks and also how good the performances on different takes is.
The question would be how to report the colours. I'm guessing RGB numbers (0xFF0000 or 16711680) aren't going to be particularly useful. :) From what I can see, REAPER doesn't have any naming or grouping for colours; they're just raw colour values. There are ways to try to calculate user understandable names from colour values, but they're very much heuristics and the code is pretty complicated. There are more obscure names for specific colours, but they wouldn't be intuitive to most people - Garnet, Mahogany, etc. - and we'd probably need to include a list of several thousand or million colour names to make this remotely useful.
I wonder whether there could be a method to leave it up to the screen reader to report the colors. The only hackything I can think of is an object with a text pattern that contains something in the particular color.
Aaaa boo. I thought this might be a complicated Horrorshow. It wouldn’t do to just define a dozen of the main ones used? Like how specific are people when assigning colours, do they go through the whole spectrum? I’m probably not grasping the complexity in this All good if this one is in the too hard basket
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On 31 Aug 2022, at 2:44 pm, James Teh @.***> wrote:
The question would be how to report the colours. I'm guessing RGB numbers (0xFF0000 or 16711680) aren't going to be particularly useful. :) From what I can see, REAPER doesn't have any naming or grouping for colours; they're just raw colour values. There are ways to try to calculate user understandable names from colour values, but they're very much heuristics and the code is pretty complicated. There are more obscure names for specific colours, but they wouldn't be intuitive to most people - Garnet, Mahogany, etc. - and we'd probably need to include a list of several thousand or million colour names to make this remotely useful.
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Is there a set of common colours defined somewhere; e.g. by REAPER? It might be reasonable if there is, but I'm not sure if there is.