Hex Colour From Colour Selector Object

[Steven]

Hi All,

I'm making a HTML editor but can't figure out how to get the colour from the Colour Selector object in to a Hex colour. The object doesn't seem to support giving you the RRGGBB values to use Hex$ in MMF2?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Steve

[LazyCoder]

Hex$(Red + (Green * 256) + ( Blue * 65536))

[Steven]

How do I grab the reds, greens and blues?

[Dynasoft]

I thought that the number the selector returned would already be Red + (Green * 256) + ( Blue * 65536)

[Steven]

If I get the colour from the object for pure red for instance all I get is 255. How do I know what the Green and Blue should be? Pure green gives you 65280 but again how do I know that the red and blue should be zero?

[James]

GetRed(), GetGreen() and GetBlue().

[Steven]

Thanks guys i'm getting there!

If I select pure red and convert that using Hex$(Red + (Green * 256) + ( Blue * 65536)) all I get back is FF?

Sorry for being such a pain!

Steve

[Dynasoft]

Hex$(colour) (no need for the red/green/blue functions) should get back the hex without 0s at the beginning. You need to use: left$("000000",6-len("hex"))+"hex" to add the right number of 0s to the beginning.

[Nifflas]

That doesn't work though. MMF goes like [Blue * 65536 + Green * 256 + Red].

In other words, it would output the colours in the order Blue, Green, Red. On a website, you write them in the order Red, Green, Blue, the calculation will have to be [Red * 65536 + Green * 256 + Blue].

[Dynasoft]

Well then I guess you do need to do:
Hex$(GetRed(colour)*65536+GetGreen(colour)*256+Get Blue(colour))
And then:
left$("000000",6-len("hex"))+"hex"
to add the 0s to the beginning.