$color statement

[badger]

Hello

i was looking at this code sinipit
 
SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(640, 400, 32)
$COLOR:32
COLOR CrayolaGold, DarkCyan
PRINT "CrayolaGold on DarkCyan.
this works fine by itself. 

I use it on my program i get illegal function call when using the color crayolagold,darkcyan  i would like to know what i am doing wrong

Badger

[bplus]

What version QB64 are you using? I am using 1.4 stable and it works fine.

[badger]

Hello

it says 1.4 on the zip file i downloaded. I may be doing something else ware that conflicts with it

Badger

The code sinpit runs well by itself it is only in my code that is does this ..

[bplus]

So are you in a 32 bit color Screen?

That is a line like this:

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(640, 400, 32)

[badger]

Hello

Thanks for the advice no i was not using that thinking i could not use _fullscreen but you can got it working

Badger

[bplus]

Yeah you can use full screen with that too.

[johnno56]

Cool... Have never used the $color command before... By the way, to be able to select the different colours, those colour names would have to be stored somewhere... nudge, nudge... lol

[SpriggsySpriggs]

Quick tip: using the $COLOR command means you can't use the $NOPREFIX command as they are not compatible. Not many people use $NOPREFIX and I haven't been using it recently since I've been sharing so much code. On my own personal programs I do use the command.

[bplus]

Cool... Have never used the $color command before... By the way, to be able to select the different colours, those colour names would have to be stored somewhere... nudge, nudge... lol

http://www.qb64.org/wiki/$COLOR

The actual constant names can be found in the file source/utilities/color32.bi.

[johnno56]

umm... Never mind... Found the colour names in color32.bi... Guess I should have looked before asking, huh?