suggestion for Color, $COLOR:0, $COLOR:32 pages

[madscijr]

Probably over-simplistic, but for my progs, I just add 3 or 4 Subs that define the colours I want to use:
...
Sub Red: 
Color _rgb(255,0,0)
End Sub
...
Works for me! 

Ha! Well that's just the thing, with this nifty feature

$COLOR:0

and

$COLOR:32

we don't have to do that anymore!
That means you can do MORE with LESS code! Yay! 

I just brought up the suggestion to mention this from, or it seems better to link to -with context- from the Color page, because without that clue, I wouldn't know about it. I only knew to look for it after noticing people using color names in their code without having made a function. But when I tried it, it didn't work, so that's when I searched and found the wiki page on it. Which led to this whole thread!

I have to say, it is nice that this language is evolving and cool little features like that pop up, because it does make life easier!

[PhilOfPerth]

Probably over-simplistic, but for my progs, I just add 3 or 4 Subs that define the colours I want to use:
...
Sub Red: 
Color _rgb(255,0,0)
End Sub
...
Works for me! 

Ha! Well that's just the thing, with this nifty feature

$COLOR:0

and

$COLOR:32

we don't have to do that anymore!
That means you can do MORE with LESS code! Yay! 

I just brought up the suggestion to mention this from, or it seems better to link to -with context- from the Color page, because without that clue, I wouldn't know about it. I only knew to look for it after noticing people using color names in their code without having made a function. But when I tried it, it didn't work, so that's when I searched and found the wiki page on it. Which led to this whole thread!

I have to say, it is nice that this language is evolving and cool little features like that pop up, because it does make life easier!

I have to admit, I hadn't come across $Color:anything, and it never occurred to me that this was available. Yes, I think it should be more prominent in the Wiki.
Still, I think I'll persist with my method: I can name the colour anything I like, like GoldfishOrange or something, and I can have any hue that I like; and it actually takes less typing (in the main prgramme) than $Color:32 and then Color whatever if I can remember what the color was called.

[SMcNeill]

If you guys haven't noticed $COLOR, you haven't looked at many of the samples on the forums here.  It's used by tons of folks and in tons of samples.  Do a search and see how many examples of it there are here on the forum. 

[madscijr]

If you guys haven't noticed $COLOR, you haven't looked at many of the samples on the forums here.  It's used by tons of folks and in tons of samples.  Do a search and see how many examples of it there are here on the forum. 

Well that's just how I came across it - in the forums, and NOT the wiki!