Color parameters

New to Analytica 5.0

Several built-in functions for cell formats, such as [[Cellfill], and Canvas functions have color parameters. You can specify a color using a name or an integer number to specify RGB (red, green and blue), and optionally alpha (transparency). You can also create User-defined functions that expect colors, using the with the Color qualifier in the function's parameter declaration.

Color names

You can specify 140 colors color by name. For example, CellFill('Green'). These are the same names used in html for web pages [1]. These are the standard color names:

Name	Color
AliceBlue
AntiqueWhite
Aqua
Aquamarine
Azure
Beige
Bisque
Black
BlanchedAlmond
Blue
BlueViolet
Brown
BurlyWood
CadetBlue
Chartreuse
Chocolate
Coral
CornflowerBlue
Cornsilk
Crimson
Cyan
DarkBlue
DarkCyan
DarkGoldenrod
DarkGray
DarkGreen
DarkKhaki
DarkMagenta
DarkOliveGreen
DarkOrange
DarkOrchid
DarkRed
DarkSalmon
DarkSeaGreen
DarkSlateBlue
DarkSlateGray
DarkTurquoise
DarkViolet
DeepPink
DeepSkyBlue
DimGray
DodgerBlue
Firebrick
FloralWhite
ForestGreen
Fuchsia
Gainsboro
GhostWhite
Gold
Goldenrod
Gray
Green
GreenYellow
Honeydew
HotPink
IndianRed
Indigo
Ivory
Khaki
Lavender
LavenderBlush
LawnGreen
LemonChiffon
LightBlue
LightCoral
LightCyan
LightGray
LightGreen
LightPink
LightSalmon
LightSeaGreen
LightSkyBlue
LightSlateGray
LightSteelBlue
LightYellow
Lime
LimeGreen
Linen
Magenta
Maroon
MediumAquamarine
MediumBlue
MediumOrchid
MediumPurple
MediumSeaGreen
MediumSlateBlue
MediumSpringGreen
MediumTurquoise
MediumVioletRed
MidnightBlue
MintCream
MistyRose
Moccasin
NavajoWhite
Navy
OldLace
Olive
OliveDrab
Orange
OrangeRed
Orchid
PaleGoldenrod
PaleGreen
PaleTurquoise
PaleVioletRed
PapayaWhip
PeachPuff
PeaGreen
Peru
Pink
Plum
PowderBlue
Purple
Red
RedPeach
RosyBrown
RoyalBlue
SaddleBrown
Salmon
SandyBrown
SeaGreen
SeaShell
Sienna
Silver
SkyBlue
SlateBlue
SlateGray
SmoothBlue
Snow
SpringGreen
SteelBlue
Tan
Teal
Thistle
Tomato
Turquoise
Violet
Wheat
White
WhiteSmoke
Yellow
YellowGreen

Color integers

A color integer encodes the RGB (red, green and blue) channels, and optionally the Alpha channel, numerically. The value is encoded as:

0xff000000 * alpha + 0x00ff0000 * red + 0x0000ff00 * green + 0x000000ff * blue

where «alpha», «red», «green» and «blue» are each between 0 and 255 inclusively. Without the alpha, an RGB number is

0x00ff0000 * red + 0x0000ff00 * green + 0x000000ff * blue

Color integers are often written in hex, such as 0x4682b4 for 'SteelBlue, where the red is 0x46, the green is 0x82, and the blue is 0xb4.

An «alpha» of 255 (0xff) is totally opaque, and an «alpha» of 1 (0x01) is almost completely transparent. When the alpha is 0x00, built-in function understand this to be an RGB number with full opacity.