Actually, setting the templatefield's backcolor might be faster than having to create a control!
darn, good thing I tried... It returns the colorname... Anyone got an idea? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J. Landman > Gay > Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 08:29 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Equivalence of Color names to RGB > > > On 7/3/04 10:01 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > > Hi developers, > > > > I've almost finished a handler to export > > vector graphics from RR/MC to Adobe Ilustrator > > version 7 file format, but i need a table > > of equivalences between rgb and the color names, > > for example: AliceBlue = 239,247,255. > > > > How could i convert the color names to their > > equivalent rgb triplet? > > Wilhelm Sanke posted the following a long time ago. I hope he doesn't > mind my re-posting it here, or the fact that I have changed his original > command handler to a function: > > function colorToRGB which > set the backcolor of fld "hiddenfield" to which > get the effective backPixel of fld "hiddenfield" > set the backPixel of field "Hiddenfield" to it > return the backcolor of fld "Hiddenfield" > end colorToRGB > > You can use a hidden field if you don't want the conversion to show. If > you are just doing this once during development, then you can use any > object, hidden or not. Go through the colorNames() and apply the > function to each one. > > I thought this was a very clever script; setting the backpixel forces > the color name to its equivalent RGB value. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
