Best way to convert color values

Andreas Bergendal andreas.bergendal at gmail.com
Wed Aug 7 12:24:31 EDT 2024


No need to reinvent that particular wheel when the awesome guys at
FerrusLogic has had us covered for years:
https://github.com/Ferruslogic/TinyColor

/Andreas

ons 7 aug. 2024 kl. 18:18 skrev Craig Newman via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:

> Hi.
>
> If Paul’s post is not viable, I don’t think there is any native gadget
> (like “convert”) that applies to the different color formats. Fairly simple
> to roll your own, depending on how comprehensive you need it.
>
> Craig
>
> > On Aug 7, 2024, at 12:04 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > You have RGB colors (0-255,0-255,0-255), Hex colors (#000000 - #FFFFFF)
> and named colors ("blue") in Livecode
> >
> > Any built in way (via some trick) to convert between color value formats?
> >
> > I can always write a routine to convert RGB to Hex and Hex to RGB, but I
> am wondering if there is some clever trick in Livecode to do this.
> >
> > For example: answer color -- returns RGB, but the htmlText of a line
> wants <p bgcolor="#NNNNNN"> </p>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
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