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Colours

Care should be taken when changing the default colour values. Any errors will be trapped with an error “Invalid Property or Value” and the application involved will terminate. It is not necessary to set up values in any of the colour INI variables, since there are default values that will be used if the INI data value is blank.

Those colour fields already set up that have 10 characters (the first 4 being) &H80 are referencing Windows system colours and should not be changed.

Those colour fields which have 8 characters (the first 2 being &H) are able to be edited. The &H indicates that the values are hexadecimal and the next 6 characters are values which represent various shades of Red, Green and Blue–2 characters per colour. The 6 characters representing the colour are made up as follows:

Valid values for XX are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F. Zero (0) is the lowest (or “lightest”) shade and F is the highest (or “darkest”) shade.

Increasing or decreasing the value of 00 and FF will lighten or darken the colour—e.g., 0000DE will display a slightly darker blue.

If experimenting with colours, it is imperative that the original colour values be noted down before changing any values so that they can be re set if necessary.

 

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