Rick if you use this loop solution it will produce the colors in the proper order. (Generating this code was the purpose of this thread.)
<cfscript> /* Create sequence of color hues. Thanks to Jim Wright of the House of Fusion discussion list for his invaluable assistance in creating this algorithm. */ thelist = "00,33,66,99,CC,FF"; //Do this to seed the list with values, by default the first element is the last value in the list, and all of the others are the first value in the list, could also be set manually y = -1; //The direction we are starting in the list x = 2; //The position we are starting with p = 3; //Number of columns colorList = ""; p1 = listlast(thelist); for (lp = 2; lp LTE p; lp = lp + 1) variables["p" & lp] = listfirst(thelist); l = listfind(thelist,variables["p" & x]); //Create hex value for current Hue hex = ""; for (lp = 1; lp LTE p; lp = lp + 1) hex = hex & variables["p" & lp]; colorList = listAppend(colorList, hex); do //iterate until start value is returned. { while (((y LT 0 AND l IS 1) OR (y GT 0 AND l IS listlen(thelist)))) { y = y * -1; if (x EQ 1) x = p; else x = x - 1; l = listfind(thelist,variables["p#x#"]); } l = l + y; variables["p" & x] = listgetat(thelist,l); //Create hex value for current Hue hex = ""; for (lp = 1; lp LTE p; lp = lp + 1) hex = hex & variables["p" & lp]; colorList = listAppend(colorList, hex); } while (listFirst(colorList) NEQ hex); colorList = listDeleteAt(colorList,listLen(colorList));// remove repeat of first value. </cfscript> -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA --------- | 1 | | --------- Binary Soduko | | | --------- "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete any copies of this message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:262095 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4