Hi Peter, Here's the one-liner if you use Quartam Color Library for LiveCode: ## put qrtColor_RGBToHex(qrtColor_NameToRGB("AliceBlue")) into tHexColor ##
Quartam Color Library is free / open source software under the commercial-friendly LGPL license. You can download it here: <http://downloads.quartam.com/libqrtcolor_100_xplatform.zip> Jan Schenkel. ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) ________________________________ From: Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 2:24 AM Subject: Color names vs hex codes I have a need to convert a color name form LC's colornames property to its equivalent hex value, or rgb value. Can that be done in LC? Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> _______________________________________________ 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