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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1205476" data-attributes="member: 141969">Yes, I will do this (or, at least, I will attempt it!).&nbsp; But not today.I thought this because that was what the Wiki indicated in its examples.&nbsp; The solution is to correct the Wiki.Having thought about this, I find it hard to believe that any skin designer would want to specify colours in decimal.&nbsp; The hardware implementation is in the form of the colour mixing of three colour planes,&nbsp; A designer wanting to select a colour would pick the strength of each colour component.&nbsp; So he might specify a hexadecimal value such as 0x808080, or specify a decimal triplet (128,128,128), but he would not want to specify the single composite decimal value 8421504.I am not in favour of [USER=68833]@ajs[/USER] proposal to modify the code to accept colour values beginning with &quot;#&quot;.&nbsp; There are unlikely to be many existing occurrences (I found none when I scanned &quot;Ares&quot;, and only one when I scanned &quot;DefaultWideHD&quot; -- in &quot;splashscreen.xml&quot;).&nbsp; Also, what would this mean:[code]&lt;colordiffuse&gt;#ff404040&lt;/colordiffuse&gt;[/code]You might think that it is obvious, but it is not so obvious if the designer has also coded:[code]&lt;define&gt;#ff404040:Please choose the option you that want&lt;/define&gt;[/code]i.e. the designer has defined a variable with a name that looks like a valid colour value.&nbsp; So I think that the only change that should be implemented is to update the Wiki.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1205476, member: 141969"] Yes, I will do this (or, at least, I will attempt it!). But not today. I thought this because that was what the Wiki indicated in its examples. The solution is to correct the Wiki. Having thought about this, I find it hard to believe that any skin designer would want to specify colours in decimal. The hardware implementation is in the form of the colour mixing of three colour planes, A designer wanting to select a colour would pick the strength of each colour component. So he might specify a hexadecimal value such as 0x808080, or specify a decimal triplet (128,128,128), but he would not want to specify the single composite decimal value 8421504. I am not in favour of [USER=68833]@ajs[/USER] proposal to modify the code to accept colour values beginning with "#". There are unlikely to be many existing occurrences (I found none when I scanned "Ares", and only one when I scanned "DefaultWideHD" -- in "splashscreen.xml"). Also, what would this mean: [code]<colordiffuse>#ff404040</colordiffuse>[/code] You might think that it is obvious, but it is not so obvious if the designer has also coded: [code]<define>#ff404040:Please choose the option you that want</define>[/code] i.e. the designer has defined a variable with a name that [i]looks like[/i] a valid colour value. So I think that the only change that should be implemented is to update the Wiki. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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