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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1205333" data-attributes="member: 141969">Well, this is very strange.&nbsp; This page in the Wiki: <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Colors" target="_blank">https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Colors</a>shows that numbers prefixed with &quot;#&quot; are valid for the TEXTCOLOR attribute.&nbsp; Are you saying that COLORDIFFUSE is different from TEXTCOLOR in this respect?I have just been experimenting, and I can now get some colours, but only by using values that do not contain hexadecimal digits&nbsp; Example: various combinations of &quot;9&quot; work (99999999, 99009999, 99990099, ...).The Wiki page above seems to suggest that numbers not prefixed with &quot;#&quot; are treated as decimal numbers, and not hexadecimal.&nbsp; It gives the following examples:[code]&lt;!-- specify a named color with non-default alpha (using hex, preferred) --&gt;&lt;textcolor&gt;White:#60&lt;/textcolor&gt;&lt;!-- not using hex --&gt;&lt;textcolor&gt;White:96&lt;/textcolor&gt;[/code]I have just scanned the skin files for &quot;DefaultWideHD&quot; (MP 1.16 pre), and I see that there are lots of uses of hexadecimal digits.&nbsp; So I tried a value that you use: I specified &quot;#ccffffff&quot; (without the quotes).&nbsp; That gave a light grey background, but the adjacent value &quot;#cbffffff&quot; gave a black background.&nbsp; I also tried the same values without the leading &quot;#&quot;; they gave the same result (&quot;ccffffff&quot; worked, &quot;cbffffff&quot; did not).So, I am still puzzled.&nbsp; What exactly does COLORDIFFUSE accept:(1) Only decimal values.(2) Only hexadecimal values that do not contain hexadecimal digits.(3) Something else.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1205333, member: 141969"] Well, this is very strange. This page in the Wiki: [URL]https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Colors[/URL] shows that numbers prefixed with "#" are valid for the TEXTCOLOR attribute. Are you saying that COLORDIFFUSE is different from TEXTCOLOR in this respect? I have just been experimenting, and I can now get some colours, [b]but only by using values that do not contain hexadecimal digits[/b] Example: various combinations of "9" work (99999999, 99009999, 99990099, ...). The Wiki page above seems to suggest that numbers not prefixed with "#" are treated as decimal numbers, and not hexadecimal. It gives the following examples: [code] <textcolor>White:#60</textcolor>  <textcolor>White:96</textcolor>[/code] I have just scanned the skin files for "DefaultWideHD" (MP 1.16 pre), and I see that there are lots of uses of hexadecimal digits. So I tried a value that you use: I specified "#ccffffff" (without the quotes). That gave a light grey background, but the adjacent value "#cbffffff" gave a black background. I also tried the same values without the leading "#"; they gave the same result ("ccffffff" worked, "cbffffff" did not). So, I am still puzzled. What [b]exactly[/b] does COLORDIFFUSE accept: (1) Only decimal values. (2) Only hexadecimal values that do not contain hexadecimal digits. (3) Something else. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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