color convert

http://www.netgfx.com/RGBaZR/

Select from UINT for the dropdown, enter your decimal value, and click convert.

Thank you destruk, but i need to do it in my channel, so i need a formula, i'm just not finding the right one on the inter-tubes

On firmware 6.1 or later you can use StrI to format hexadecimal.

color = &h404040FF
? "&h" + UCase(StrI(color, 16))

"RokuKC" wrote:
On firmware 6.1 or later you can use StrI to format hexadecimal.

color = &h404040FF
? "&h" + UCase(StrI(color, 16))

Thank you! I had found SrtI, but didn't realize I could dump the whole color in there.

Ok so here are two colors:

varr.background = &h404040FF
? varr.background = 1077952767
color = 1077952767
? "&h" + UCase(StrI(color, 16)) = &h404040FF

however:

varr.blue = &h0889f7FF
? varr.blue = 143259647
color = 143259647
? "&h" + UCase(StrI(color, 16)) = &h889F7FF
which is only 5 digits for the color not 6 which results in a rather different color, a light yellow not a bright blue.

Whatsup here? the leading zero in the original blue hex spec? how to resolve this?
Thanks

Another case:
varr.red = &h911820FF
? varr.red = -1860689665
color = -1860689665
? "&h" + UCase(StrI(color, 16)) = &h-6EE7DF01

I seem to be missing something important here.

"squirreltown" wrote:
Another case:
varr.red = &h911820FF
? varr.red = -1860689665
color = -1860689665
? "&h" + UCase(StrI(color, 16)) = &h-6EE7DF01

I seem to be missing something important here.

Yes, I see you are right and the color spec string would need to be left-padded with "0"s.

But if the hex conversion is treating it as signed, that is a problem... I did not realize it worked that way. 😞

At this point it is rather too hacky:

? "&h" + UCase(("000" + StrI(color >> 16, 16)).Right(4) + ("000" + StrI(color AND &hFFFF, 16)).Right(4))

But perhaps that would work. Sigh.

That seems to work, I tried it with the red and blue colors that failed before and they returned correctly.
So thank you, I would not have figured it out.
I looked up Integer Bitshift Operators and a dull haze surrounded everything so I stopped reading it.
As far as the hacky part goes, i won't tell anyone if you don't.

"squirreltown" wrote:
That seems to work, I tried it with the red and blue colors that failed before and they returned correctly.
So thank you, I would not have figured it out.
I looked up Integer Bitshift Operators and a dull haze surrounded everything so I stopped reading it.
As far as the hacky part goes, i won't tell anyone if you don't.

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to do this? In general, it seems like the hex color codes are easier to understand (just r,g,b,a components). The decimal representation has little to no value to a human...