Background colors in pallets

To take that thought a little bit further - wouldn't it be useful if beam palettes could actually display an image of the gobo or effect that they represent?
Customizable, of course, so that you could load a .jpg or .gif of your custom gobo onto a thumbdrive and copy it into the show....
Even for effects like prism and iris, or gobo rotation, having a graphical representation would be a vast improvement (IMHO) over the current text-only labels. Text labels were great in the Hog2 era, but isn't the graphics engine behind Hog3 capable of handling something like this?
Further, wouldn't it be useful for media server programming, if palettes could display thumbnail images of content?

Kenneth & Dan,

it's called a Compulite Vector.

Adding colour to the background of palletes is a noted enhancement an will be implememted.

Hopefully not just color, but a jpg file could be used, so I could make whatever color or picture I desired. The gel picker does this already. I wonder how complex it is to give the user access to this capability.

Backround in palletes in color a good idea or a symbol or jpg file .Brad said in july it is a plan for future??

dol

All,

we do plan to add color coding, jpgs and the like to the directories. We are currently evaluating our plans for upcoming releases so I do not have a timeline for these features, but they are high on the list.