IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/15/13 12:20 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> How would anyone write a command like:
>
> on darkenObject pID
>     -- darkens whatever you hand it
>     get the backcolor of pID
>     repeat with i = 1 to 3
>        put max(0,item i of it - 20) into item i of it
>     end repeat
>     set the backcolor of pID to it
> end darkenObject
>
> The moment you hand that an object with a backcolor of red, or #808080,
> that command dies an ugly death.

Yup, that's been an issue forever. We need a property called "the 
rgbColor". The inability to retrieve RGB values from an object forces 
ugly workarounds like this one, which requires an entire LC lesson:

<http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/2592/l/125746-translating-a-color-name-to-an-rgb-numeric-triplet>

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