Text color change depending on track color (SOLVED)

[theFRXST]

I noticed in the default theme the track numbers will change from white to black depending on color.

I attempted to copy some of of the walter code out of it into my own with no luck.

Someone thats a better walter wizard than myself know how do to this?

[strachupl]

I think you must add in code before walter line:
version 5
to use this option:

https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/walter/walter.php#scalars
trackcolor_valid -- (REAPER 5.0+) - set to 1 if track color set
trackcolor_r -- (REAPER 5.0+) - valid if trackcolor_valid set, red value 0-255
trackcolor_g -- (REAPER 5.0+) - valid if trackcolor_valid set, green value 0-255
trackcolor_b -- (REAPER 5.0+) - valid if trackcolor_valid set, blue value 0-255

This will make track label text color to track color:

set tcp.label.color [trackcolor_r trackcolor_g trackcolor_b 255]

You can go advance with it:

set modr * trackcolor_r 0.5
set modg * trackcolor_g 0.5
set modb * trackcolor_b 0.5
set tcp.label.color [modr modg modb 255]

Label text should be half bright than track color now.

[theFRXST]

thanks for the reply, this just makes the text the color of the track. I'd like the text to turn black on a certain brightness for a color and the opposite. Hope that makes sense

[Pet]

Hi theFRXST,
that's exactly what I had to deal with too, because in my default-mod I made the backgrounds more transparent to see more of the chosen color. This was not a smart decision, cause the readout text became sometimes unreadable. You can check the rtconfig from my default-mod (it's in my signature).
I copied and modified the color-macro to change from a lighter to a darker color, depending on the brightness of the track color.
I assume, that's what you want to achieve too.
I'm not at my PC right now, so I can't look after details, but I hope, it will help you.

Peter

[theFRXST]

Thanks Pet, I already had that macro from the default theme.. I decided to attempt to edit the macro and well.. I have my desired result.

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macro colorsmart element r g b
set luma + + * 0.299 [trackcolor_r] * 0.587 [trackcolor_g] * 0.114 [trackcolor_b]
set element ?trackcolor_valid luma{x}>140 [23 23 23] [214 214 214] [r g b]
endmacro

colorsmart tcp.label.color 230 230 230 0

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