I'm making a simple RTF editor, but my background color feature doesn't work as expected. I've had it working already, but using a really clunky text-based system that parses RGB values by pulling them as the last 11 characters in a preset string, but now I'm thinking I'd like to create an actual color selector.
Problem is, the RTF object only accepts color values in two formats. "255, 255, 255" as a string which determines Red, Green, and Blue values respectively and some weird "BLUE*00000 + GREEN*00000 + RED*00000" integer format that I don't quite understand.
The color picker's I've used don't allow for separate RGB values, and I can't really determine any standard RGB value from them. Usually, they pass some number like 6736193. I could understand that if G=061 and B=093, but Red can't be more than 255 in a standard RGB system.
I threw out the idea of using the color-picker system and built a mini subapp with three numerical slider controls. Standard values are all 100; max to 255. Problem is, I can't find any kind of object that will handle each of the separate RGB values to display the user-selected color (there's no items that can preview even if I find some way to combine the three numerical slider values).
So, yeah... I can allow the user to change the separate color values and apply them to the RTF document background, but without any user preview. I can get a preview using the color selector object, but then I can't apply it to the RTF document background.
