Get Panel Attributes - Colours

[Chazrox]

I cant seem to get the colour attributes to work in script with a panel. Im trying to set the panels colours by using panel.get("bgColour"); but it returns this number....

but then when I pasted that number from the console into here to show u guys it shows up as this whole object...weird.

{
  "alignment": "left",
  "fontStyle": "plain",
  "fontSize": 16.0,
  "fontName": "Source Code Pro",
  "textColour": "3253075780",
  "itemColour2": 4212199697,
  "itemColour": 0,
  "bgColour": 0,
  "width": 140.0,
  "height": 30.0
}

How do I get the panel colours?

[David Healey]

@Chazrox that is the color, as a decimal rather than hex.

[Chazrox]

@David-Healey How do I convert that to a HEX? and why did it produce that object when I pasted that decimal number in the chat?

[dannytaurus]

@Chazrox It's possible that you didn't actually copy the decimal value and it pasted whatever else was on your clipboard.

If you use a clipboard manager, call it up and see what's actually in your clipboard history.

[David Healey]

@Chazrox said in Get Panel Attributes - Colours:

How do I convert that to a HEX?

Engine.intToHexString() but you should be able to use the integer representation directly in your paint routines I think.

[Chazrox]

@dannytaurus quite possible!

[Chazrox]

@David-Healey Yup that worked. Thanks!

Works.

var ColourNOW = 3758365736;

Console.print(Engine.intToHexString(ColourNOW));

panelColourTesting.set("itemColour", ColourNOW);

[ustk]

In the end, a number is a number. The format (base) is just a chosen representation of the same number, be it decimal, hexadecimal, binary, octal or whatever fancy base-factorial one can invent

[Chazrox]

@ustk great insight! Very true. I guess I could have just tried the decimal point first but I automatically thought it would be wrong. I just tried it and it does work both ways. Thanks!

[David Healey]

@ustk said in Get Panel Attributes - Colours:

In the end, a number is a number. The format (base) is just a chosen representation of the same number, be it decimal, hexadecimal, binary, octal or whatever fancy base-factorial one can invent

Except when you try an enter an integer in the property editor colour fields it misinterprets it.

[ustk]

@David-Healey There might be a bad parsing at some point. Without really knowing, the hex might be first parsed as string by the property editor...