You are right about the word being the problem. A word can only store
0..65535 being only 16bit. If you were in 32bit color mode you would no
doubt encounter problems trying to stick a 32bit value into a 16bit
variable. Using a longint should work.
If you look up 'TColor' in the delphi help it also talks about how to
manipulate the color as a hexadecimal value like what you were doing
resulting in yellow.
Nahum Wild
CSG Software Developer
Swichtec Power Systems
-----Original Message-----
From: Coulter, Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 1999 14:12
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: Colour Problem
Hi all.....well now I have established the list IS still
working......lastnight I was doing some stuff with colours
I found that if I tried to set a variable with clWhite, I got a constant out
of range error.
The variable is of type WORD, dould I change this to longint instead ??
Also, if I set the colour and saved it to the variable with $FFFF (I think
it was) it always defaulted to Yellow !
BUt is my suspission about using a longint rather than a word founded ??
Thanks,
Jeremy Coulter
Application Developer
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Compaq Computer New Zealand Ltd.
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