svgcolor

Purpose

Compute a composite color by combining amounts of red, green and blue.

Synopsis

function svgcolor(red, green, blue: integer): text

function svgcolor(red, green, blue: real): text

function svgcolor(red, green, blue: text): text

Arguments

red	Amount of red (integer between 0 and 255, real between 0 and 1, or hexadecimal value between 0 and FF).
green	Amount of green (integer between 0 and 255, real between 0 and 1, or hexadecimal value between 0 and FF).
blue	Amount of blue (integer between 0 and 255, real between 0 and 1, or hexadecimal value between 0 and FF).

Return value

Hexadecimal representation of the composite color.

Example

The following definitions mix red with green and store the result in a variable. All three forms result in the same color.

declarations
  a_color: text
end-declarations

a_color:=svgcolor(255,255,0)
a_color:=svgcolor(1.0,1.0,0.0)
a_color:=svgcolor("FF","FF","0")

Further information

If the color component values are out of range, mmsvg will raise an I/O error.