Color Name

[bn]

There are 552 colorNames with unique RGB values. There are 256*256*256 possible RGB values = 16.777.216

If you set the startValue of your sliders to 0 you will find more hits. E.g. 255,0,0 or 255,255,0.

Otherwise your chances are slim to find the exact RGB value of a given color name. Something like one in 30393. (16.777.216 / 552) if my math is correct.


Kind regards
Bernd

[bn]

on a Mac you can use this to get colorsToNames and namesToColor in the IDE of LC 8 DP 6 and up

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on mouseUp
   put specialFolderPath("engine") into tPath
   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
   put "" into last item of tPath
   put "Tools/Toolset/resources/supporting_files/colors/colorsToNames.txt" after tPath
   put url ("file:" & tPath) into field 1
   put "Tools/Toolset/resources/supporting_files/colors/namesToColors.txt" into item - 6 to - 1 of tPath
   put url ("file:" & tPath) into field 2
end mouseUp

it lists what the title says.

for other operationg systems the path probably has to be adapted.

Kind regards

Bernd

[AndyP]

Hi Bernd,

Great find. Haven't looked at the supporting text files before. Very Interesting.

[richmond62]

https://github.com/livecode/livecode-id ... oNames.txt

https://github.com/livecode/livecode-id ... Colors.txt