How to change the color of the transport status text when Reaper is recording

[christian64]

Hi,
I wanted to know if it was possible to change the color of the transport status text when Reaper is recording (as on Logic)
Thanks in advance,
Christian

[DrKev]

The color and font is not set by WALTER, it's set in the Theme Tweaker, so I think the answer is "no".

[vitalker]

Perhaps you'd like red bar while recording instead?
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=99103

[White Tie]

Indeed, I'm afraid not. We can't change the colour of that with WALTER, and even if we could we can't change things in WALTER based on whether Reaper is recording. Sorry.

[christian64]

Thank you very much for your answers.

[lexaproductions]

An easy alternative is to change your record command and assign it to this instead:

local default_col = 0x808080 -- Set this value to the default color you want
local record_col = 0xCC0000 -- Set this value to the red color you want

reaper.Main_OnCommand(1013, 0) -- Record Command
local color = reaper.GetPlayState()&4 == 4 and record_col or default_col
reaper.SetThemeColor('col_trans_fg', color, 0)

And to make sure your color is always reset on stop you change your Spacebar action to this:

local default_col = 0x808080 -- Set this value to the default color you want

reaper.Main_OnCommand(40044, 0) -- Play stop command
reaper.SetThemeColor('col_trans_fg', default_col, 0)

You can even map those scripts to the Transport buttons with the new addition of WALTER's custom buttons. But this is another subject

[christian64]

Thanks for answer!!

"local record_col = 0xCC0000 -- Set this value to the red color you want"

Can you tell me where to find these color codes, please?
Thanks in advance...

[lexaproductions]

I just googled
"rgb to hex"

There are plenty of tools to figure out the values.