When is a color not a color
Peter Haworth
pete at lcsql.com
Tue Jun 11 17:41:22 EDT 2013
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:40 PM, BNig <niggemann at uni-wh.de> wrote:
> on mouseUp
> put 256 into tSoMany
> repeat with i = 1 to tSoMany
> put i & tab & tab & "Just Some Colorized Text" & return after tData
> end repeat
> delete last char of tData
> lock screen
> put tData into field 1
> repeat with i = 1 to tSoMany
> set the textColor of line i of field 1 to i
> end repeat
> repeat with i = 1 to tSoMany
> put tab & (the textColor of line i of field 1) after line i of field
> 1
> end repeat
>
> unlock screen
> end mouseUp
>
Fascinating! I guess single numbers get translated into rgb triplets
somehow. The dictionary has something in it about single numbers being
treated as a valid color by "is a" for compatibility with Hypercard.
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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