Hey Keith, One site that could help you is Scott Rossi's tactilemedia.com he has some great tutorials and the 'Color Slider' tutorial should give you all the info you need to convert your colour data into HSB (HSL), then you can just compare the brightness values and respond accordingly.
The tutorial page is here; http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/software/tutorials.html Paul On 15 Feb 2012, at 11:15, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a problem... If a user selects a color and I put it into a variable > (as RGB), how can I find a shade that is several shades lighter, and a shade > that is several shades darker, also in RGB format? > > For example, I put 0,255,64 into myVar. (This color a shade of green.) > Programmatically, how can I find a shade that is several shades lighter in > green and a shade that is several shades darker in green from this base color? > > (By the way... Is there a way in LiveCode to determine the hue of a color and > change the value?) > > Any help would be most appreciated... > > Thanks! > > - Boo > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
