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Yes, thanks High_Five, I know how to do that, but that is not what I am trying to do. CyberSimian has got it.

I am trying to retrieve the colour of the selected cell on the TV guide, which I then want to use in other controls on the page.

At the moment, the only way I can see of doing it is to hard code it into the skin files, and use defines, basically cribbing the tvguidecolors from the SkinSettings.xml

at the start of the mytvguide.xml

<define>#gc.kids:FF807E00</define>

then later...

<control>
...
...
<visible>string.contains(#TV.Guide.Genre,children)</visible>
<colordiffuse>#gc.kids</colordiffuse>
....
....

and so on for each genre

What would have been better instead of defining each genre colour and duplicating all the controls would have been to have the colour of the currently selected programme genre in the guide returned in a variable such as #TV.Guide.Genrecolour

Many thanks

<blockquote data-quote="Rob Hexenmeister" data-source="post: 1301651" data-attributes="member: 113164">Yes, thanks High_Five, I know how to do that, but that is not what I am trying to do. CyberSimian has got it.I am trying to retrieve the colour of the selected cell on the TV guide, which I then want to use in other controls on the page. At the moment, the only way I can see of doing it is to hard code it into the skin files, and use defines, basically cribbing the tvguidecolors from the SkinSettings.xmlat the start of the mytvguide.xml&lt;define&gt;#gc.kids:FF807E00&lt;/define&gt;then later...&lt;control&gt;......&lt;visible&gt;string.contains(#TV.Guide.Genre,children)&lt;/visible&gt;&lt;colordiffuse&gt;#gc.kids&lt;/colordiffuse&gt;........and so on for each genreWhat would have been better instead of defining each genre colour and duplicating all the controls would have been to have the colour of the currently selected programme genre in the guide returned in a variable such as #TV.Guide.GenrecolourMany thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rob Hexenmeister, post: 1301651, member: 113164"] Yes, thanks High_Five, I know how to do that, but that is not what I am trying to do. CyberSimian has got it. I am trying to retrieve the colour of the selected cell on the TV guide, which I then want to use in other controls on the page. At the moment, the only way I can see of doing it is to hard code it into the skin files, and use defines, basically cribbing the tvguidecolors from the SkinSettings.xml at the start of the mytvguide.xml <define>#gc.kids:FF807E00</define> then later... <control> ... ... <visible>string.contains(#TV.Guide.Genre,children)</visible> <colordiffuse>#gc.kids</colordiffuse> .... .... and so on for each genre What would have been better instead of defining each genre colour and duplicating all the controls would have been to have the colour of the currently selected programme genre in the guide returned in a variable such as #TV.Guide.Genrecolour Many thanks [/QUOTE]