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BackgroundColor$
« Thread started on: Apr 23rd, 2015, 7:01pm »
Is BackgroundColor$ limited to the standard colours listed in LB or can these be varied. What I am looking for is a pale cream background. The closest I can get to this is the garish yellow, which looks awful.
I tried BackgroundColor$ = "Backcolor R B G" (where R B & G are numbers 0-255). This changes the background colour but not in the way I expected.
Just to clarify, the color triplet is R G B, not R B G as you have posted. Perhaps that is the color distortion you mention. And yes Liberty BASIC only supports named colors.
You are correct. I'm afraid I was being a bit dyslectic. It is indeed RGB and that was why I was having the problem. The figures in my last post were in RGB order, not RBG as I stated.
It's a pity that LB can't do this. Is there no way it can be overcome?
In the dim and distant past the controls on a GUI were supposed to adopt the colors that the user had chosen, not the programmer. So multi colored controls are new-fangled and largely I think driven by the browser experience folks have gained.
I believe that's historically why Liberty BASIC has more limited color abilities. But I am sure that will change.
The alternative is to roll your own in a graphic box where you can leave behind color, shape and transparency restrictions and code photorealistic controls of your own.
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