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Issue 14.6

COLUMN

Colors and Licenses

Open Source code for Xojo

Issue: 14.6 (November/December 2016)
Author: Scott Boss
Author Bio: Scott Boss is the founder of Nocturnal Coding Monkeys, Llc, who specialize in writing custom software. Scott has been a developer, system administrator, storage engineer, consultant, and architect to businesses from startup to global 100.
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This month I am going to break a promise that I made to myself about this column. We are going to talk about something I authored. Actually, we are going to talk about two different open source items I wrote!

First we are going to look at Xojo Colors Module (https://bitbucket.org/nocturnalcodingmonkeys/xojo-colors-module). In Xojo, whenever you deal with colors, you either have to use hex code strings (in code) or you have to pick colors via the Xojo IDE. Now the Colors module doesn't help you when picking colors via the IDE. If we look at the following code, we use Colors.Apple.White to make the background of the canvas white.

// event canvas.Open().

Function Open()

dim p as new Picture( me.width,me.height,32 )

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