Color software

[Gatefiz]

Hi,
I'm trying to make a software where I can put hexa color, and it draw rectangle with this color.
I can easily do it with rgb, but I need to put hexa code.
I tried to:
text = keyboard_string
color = string_lettersdigits(text)

But, it's always a string, and it needs a number.

Can someone help me ?

 

[Binsk]

There isn't a built in way but the conversion isn't hard.

You can make a color via make_color_* functions. You can get the hex as a string. You need to manually parse the string into values you can pass into make_color_*

 

[Gatefiz]

Then, I have to take my string, and transform values as numbers ?
Like "e000d8" = 14680280 ?
I'm not sure to understand =(

 

[TailBit]

I missread the question .. nwm

Spoiler

From the gamemaker help file:
scripting > gml_reference > drawing > colour

Note that you can also create colours from their hexadecimal value using the "$" symbol beforehand, and these values can also be used in the colour functions to get component hues or for mixing, etc... The hexadecimal value for these colours is split into three parts with the format Blue / Green / Red so, for example, to define a purple colour you could use:

col = $983c95

This page always got some good scripts for things like this:
https://www.gmlscripts.com/script/hex_to_color

It seems that scripts needs this one:
https://gmlscripts.github.io/script/hex_to_dec

 

[Gatefiz]

Yeah I seen that I can create color.
I can do it at create event, and it works perfectly.
But I need to write color in a box, and this box need to change color by what I wrote.
And my problem is, when I do "text = keyboard_string", it's a string, then I can't say color = text
Or maybe I didn't understood what you said ^^.

Edit--> I'll watch your link, maybe I'll find what I need =)

 

[TailBit]

Yes, it takes string as a input.

/// hex_to_color(hex)

// hex - hexadecimal color in RRGGBB format, string

 

[Gatefiz]

Yeah, it works perfectly.
Thanks a lot for your help guys !