Colours

[Acorn]

StripeColor - value 16382457 (0x00f9f9f9)
DeactivationColor - value 10263708 (0x009c9c9c)
SelectionColor - value 8240895 (0x007dbeff)

For these I would assume you have transparency and the RGB values.
The 0x prefix is saying the following characters are hexadecimal.
So the StripeColor is a very light grey; DeactivationColor is a darker grey and SelectionColor is a sky blue.

Acorn

[gracehjs]

Yes but according to Wikipedia
RGBA stands for red green blue alpha. While it is sometimes described as a color space, it is actually simply a use of the RGB color model, with extra information. The color is RGB, and may belong to any RGB color space, but an integral alpha value as invented by Catmull and Smith between 1971 and 1972 enables alpha compositing. The inventors named alpha after the Greek letter in the classic linear interpolation formula αA + (1-α)B.

The alpha channel is normally used as an opacity channel. If a pixel has a value of 0% in its alpha channel, it is fully transparent (and, thus, invisible), whereas a value of 100% in the alpha channel gives a fully opaque pixel (traditional digital images). Values between 0% and 100% make it possible for pixels to show through a background like a glass (translucency), an effect not possible with simple binary (transparent or opaque) transparency. It allows easy image compositing.

And that is what I am seeing in the picker completely transparent , so how do I interpret the values?

[gracehjs]

OK, after thinking about it I replaced the first 2 zeroes with FF and I then get colors. I would still like to know what the options mean so I can test.

Thanks

[handrawn]

Hi Grace

'SelectionColor' is the color the bar in the pageandlayer gallery displays for selected item[s] [edit - ie items shown as selected in the gallery so it includes 'page' and 'layer' entries as and when selected not just items selected on the workspace]

'DeactivationColour' is the color the text in the gallery turns for an item that is locked and/or hidden

'StripeColor' is the color given to every alternative entry in the gallery, opposing to the background color [which default is white] so as to make the entries easier to determinate [see/count/whatever] [edit - this is of course overidden by selection color as appropriate]

[gracehjs]

Thanks Handrawn.

[handrawn]

no probs

whilst here have I mentioned:

ClearCurrentAttrs [in.. Options\Attributes] - which prevents a second 'ESC' keystroke from resetting current attributes to default [praise be...]

you can still use ctrl+backspace to reset them to default if you wish

[PS - in your OP you appear to have a typo: it is GuideLayer..., not GuidesLayer..., for the 3 guide line RGB dwords in ..Options\Layers]

[gracehjs]

no probs

whilst here have I mentioned:

ClearCurrentAttrs [in.. Options\Attributes] - which prevents a second 'ESC' keystroke from resetting current attributes to default [praise be...]

you can still use ctrl+backspace to reset them to default if you wish
>>Added this one to my TODO list

[PS - in your OP you appear to have a typo: it is GuideLayer..., not GuidesLayer..., for the 3 guide line RGB dwords in ..Options\Layers]
Its OK in the programme - I just can't type.

Thanks