Color Palette Drag/Drop Re-order

Cubase
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Ability to drag/drop colors in palette to re-order them
OR
export palette to file (xml?, csv?) and then import after edit.

Entering each color manually is too time-intensive.

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Colors are saved in the Defaults.xml… search that .xml for “PColorController”
I have once maaaaany moons ago re-ordered the colors in the list.

The easiest way I found back then was to copy out the whole section to a seperate temporary .txt file… As to have the color name (if set) or nr and its value at hand (important to keep track of ).
I then copied from my temporary file and pasted in the values (and names if set) in the order I want them to be in the Defaults.xml

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You. So. ROCK!!

Thanks, Carvin_Man, that’s very helpful, but I should have been more precise in my suggested feature improvement. While you correctly solved my issue as written, what I really meant is to be able to edit colors in a standard color format (hex or RGB), so my bad.

An entry from Defaults.xml:
<string name=“Name” value=“Yellow” wide=“true”/>
<int name=“Color” value=“4294892576”/>

What I really was hoping to see was, alas, a color value more like “FEDC20” or “254,220,32”

That being said, after a little number crunching, I discovered that it is possible to get 4294892576 via the following algorithm:

  1. Pick and convert the color you want in hex notation, e.g. FEDC20. [ Color Name & Hue – Colblindor ]

  2. Prepend that number with FF, so FEDC20 would become FFFEDC20.

  3. Convert that number to decimal, which equals 4294892576 (see original example above). The calculator on your computer will do this or go to [ Hexadecimal to Decimal Converter ].

Of course, that’s still more work that just fiddlin’ with the little number boxes in Cubase, but for those who want to use a color shade/tint site like [ HTML Color Picker - Create Tints and Shades of Any Color ] to make a custom color palette of 32+ colors, it’s much faster to start with the raw hex numbers than enter the colors in default Cubase dialog.

Much better still would be for Cubase to code an extra edit box on the Color
Picker that allows for hex numbers.

The info you’ve given me, however, is AWESOME and will allow me to do what I need to do, so thank you very much for your reply!

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You’re welcome :smiley:
I found this method to be the least “fiddly” one to re-order the color list.

Now I take care and make sure I bring my colors into every new version of Cubase… Basically using a template or a seperate “Track Color Project”, which I open up in the new version… and as soon as possible make it my new default colors.

PS. It would be great to be able to drag/drop the order of the colors within the color box itself :wink:

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I’ve just finished coding a Web page that allows you to

  1. create a Cubase color palette with shades AND

  2. generate the code needed to instantly set up a new default color palette.

You no longer need to hassle with those stupid little spin boxes in Cubase Color Picker! If you like to customize your Cubase colors, I’ve just saved you literally hours of time. You’re welcome! 8)

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Keep in mind, that Cubase has a longstanding bug that alters and changes the colors in the UI anyway.

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Good to know, I’m a relative newbie. Is the palette persistent when saved with the project? That was my understanding.

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Each time a project is loaded (or the DAW is restarted. Not sure), the custom color scheme will change slowly towards a purple-ish color if it isn’t set to the first default dark color. I find that I have to periodically reselect the correct color scheme.

When this first happened to me, it was very subtle but after some weeks, my UI was a dark purple. If you see screenshots of people Cubase and it’s a weird purple color, that’s it.

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