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Apr 24^th, 2007 at 2:45am

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I want to change color for some text used in a default-gauge PFD. Here are some examples of the way the colors are listed in the .xml doc:

Color="#1296A5"
Color="#FF00FF"

These two colors need to be changed to bright green. Have checked out the FS2004 SDK (it is an FS9 gauge) but haven't been able to uncover anything to explain this. Any leads are welcome.

Brian

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Reply #1 - Apr 24^th, 2007 at 7:29am

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Color="#1296A5"

Color="#FF00FF"

That is the hexadecimal* equivalents for the decimal R-G-B value of the color. *(In the wiki page see the 'Hex-triplet' para.)

True

green

would read #00ff00. For other shades you can use the color pallet in an image editor (Paint) to find the R-G-B values. You can 'convert' decimal to hex values using Windows Calculator/Scientific View.
.....Or, as long as your here, use this forums reply/modify window, and pick a color from the text color pallet. "[color=#00ff00][/color]" and copy the value to your xml.
.....Or, here is a web based converter, where you pick a color or decimal values and get hex values.

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Reply #2 - Apr 24^th, 2007 at 3:54pm

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I never knew that!! Your're absolutely correct about the colors used for text editing here, that's a neat trick. Many thanks for the help!

Brian

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