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fillcolor boolean discrepancy

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January 29, 2018
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Hey everyone,

Could someone explain the below (console) behavior for me? ( Nb. f1. is a text field that is gray.)

f1.fillColor==color.gray

false

f1.fillColor

G,0.5

color.gray

G,0.5

I'd like to use the background color for booleans , but because the top comparison fails I'm at a loss.

For this particular instance I have a workaround but for my overall understanding I'd be happy to know why this works this way

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Correct answer try67

Color objects are actually an array, and arrays can't be compared to each other directly in JS.

So this code will return false:

[1] == [1]

The solution is to use the built-in equal method of the color object.

For example, this will return true:

color.equal(color.red, ["RGB", 1, 0, 0])

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WardenburgAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you, good to know!

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

You can use this:

f1.fillColor.join('|') == color.gray.join('|')

try67

Community Expert

Why would you want to do that if you have a perfectly good built-in comparison method, that even converts the two values to the same color-space, if needed?
For example, this returns true:

color.equal(["RGB",1,1,0], ["CMYK",0,0,1,0])

This returns false:

["RGB",1,1,0].join('|') == ["CMYK",0,0,1,0].join('|')

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

I have only found the join solution.

try67

Correct answer

Community Expert

Color objects are actually an array, and arrays can't be compared to each other directly in JS.

So this code will return false:

[1] == [1]

The solution is to use the built-in equal method of the color object.

For example, this will return true:

color.equal(color.red, ["RGB", 1, 0, 0])

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