2007/12/14, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I desperately need runtime defined colors (state dependent) for my > macros. The macros are used with different graphic styles, which is the > reason why I want to avoid any style dependent part inside them. > > To give you an example. I need something like this > > \color[{\StateDependentColor[stateA=green,stateC=blue,whatever=yellow,...]}] > > If flag 'stateA' is true at runtime, then color 'green' is used (and so > on; order is significant). > > I have written such a macro, but sadly it crashes when used inside > \color or \definecolor. Tried to debug it, but this is my first > experience with the trace commands (probably not the best example to > start with). Sigh, still so much to learn.. :) > > Any hints are welcome. > > Regards, Peter
Hi Peter, can you try this (untested), \chardef\stateA\zerocount \chardef\stateB\plusone \chardef\stateC\plustwo \let\currentstate\stateA \def\statecolor{\ifcase\currentstate red\or green\or blue\fi} \starttext \color[\statecolor]{Currentstate} \let\currentstate\stateB \color[\statecolor]{Currentstate} \let\currentstate\stateC \color[\statecolor]{Currentstate} \stoptext Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________