Arranger section colours

[acewhistle]

Hello peepz,

Any idea how I can set my preferred colours with the Arrangement section coz everytime I have to open a new project, it just reverts back to its default colours and finding it time consuming to do it all over again.

Many thanks.

[Promidi]

You can edit them by modifying the sectionTypes.json file with a standard text editor

This file is located here:

%ProgramData%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Arranger

[acewhistle]

Many thanks

[OutrageProductions]

@Promidi
I'm assuming that the "defaultLength" is in ticks, but what color wheel does the 10 digit  "color"  entry relate to???
[It's not hex RGBA, so...?]

Edited July 16, 2022 by OutrageProductions

[Promidi]

On 7/16/2022 at 2:02 PM, OutrageProductions said:

@Promidi
 but what color wheel does the 10 digit  "color"  entry relate to???
[It's not hex RGBA, so...?]

It's HEX ARGB converted to decimal.   Or put another way, 4278190080 + (65536 * red_value) + (256 * green_value) + blue_value  (where the colour values are 0 to 255 respectively )

Edited July 17, 2022 by Promidi

[OutrageProductions]

@Promidi  very cool. Thanks!

[sjoens]

I'm confused. That color code makes no sense to me, and why use it when #2 below uses the more familiar format (ie: "ff5894de")?

My search results for "sectionTypes.json":

1. C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Arranger\sectionTypes.json
2. C:\Users\"me"\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\userArrangerSectionTypes.json
3. C:\Users\"me"\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Arranger\sectionTypes.json

1 & 3 are the same file stored in different places. What is 2 for?

[Promidi]

1 hour ago, sjoens said:

I'm confused. That color code makes no sense to me, and why use it when #2 below uses the more familiar format (ie: "ff5894de")?

My search results for "sectionTypes.json":

1. C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Arranger\sectionTypes.json
2. C:\Users\"me"\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\userArrangerSectionTypes.json
3. C:\Users\"me"\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Arranger\sectionTypes.json

1 & 3 are the same file stored in different places. What is 2 for?

I deleted number 2.  3 does not exit on my system

CbB still picked up the settings from "%programdata%\cakewalk\cakewalk Core\arranger%progdata%"

Yes, it does not make sense, but it is what it is.  Those are the colour codes.