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Adobe JS color references - only 16 basic named colours working in my pdf

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I have this script setup to trigger on mouse up on a button action in my pdf

The objective is to cycle through 3 colours so people can mark the status of a text field Red Amber or Green (RAG)

This works if I hard code named colors in my events, so I thought I would do the smart thing and declare variables and setup custom colors.

This is not working

var MyCrimson = ["RGB",0.537,0.776,0];
var MyOrange = ["RGB", 0,0,1];
var MyLimegreen = ["RGB", 0,1,0];

if (color.equal(color.MyCrimson, event.target.textColor)) {
	event.target.textColor = color.MyOrange;
} else if (color.equal(color.MyOrange, event.target.textColor)) {
	event.target.textColor = color.MyLimegreen;
} else event.target.textColor = color.MyCrimson;

But this does work (just ugly colors)

if (color.equal(color.red, event.target.textColor)) {
	event.target.textColor = color.yellow;
} else if (color.equal(color.yellow, event.target.textColor)) {
	event.target.textColor = color.green;
} else event.target.textColor = color.red;

Also hard coding the "RGB" values does not work

I'm working (and previewing) on a mac - begining to think we only have the basic 16 named colors available?

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try67

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(My replies here keep disappearing for some reason... Hopefully this one will show up)

Your issues happen due to incorrect rounding of the values in the color array.

I recommend you round both arrays (both the ones you've defined and the ones returned by textColor and/or fillColor) to 2 decimal points and then compare them.

By the way, in the first line of your code you're printing out the fillColor property, but in the rest of it you're using the textColor one...

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JR Boulay

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Tip!

For humans it's easier to write colors like this: ["RGB", 255/255, 141/255, 85/255]

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P HarbordAuthor

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ah - thank you, I'll try it

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George_Johnson

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You'd have to do it like this:

color.MyCrimson = ["RGB",0.537,0.776,0];
// add other colors here

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P HarbordAuthor

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Thanks for answering

like this? - or hard coded in the if statement

color.MyCrimson = ["RGB",0.537,0.776,0];
color.MyOrange = ["RGB",0,0,1];
color.MyLimegreen = ["RGB",0,1,0];

if (color.equal(color.MyCrimson, event.target.textColor)) {
	event.target.textColor = color.MyOrange;
} else if (color.equal(color.MyOrange, event.target.textColor)) {
	event.target.textColor = color.MyLimegreen;
} else event.target.textColor = color.MyCrimson;

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George_Johnson

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Yes, that should work. You're simply adding your custom colors to the built-in color object. That orange might look blue though. :^)

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