TextItemGetColor

This function allows you to retrieve the color of a text item.

Syntax

int int int int textItemGetColor ( textitem textitem )              

Required Arguments

• textitem: The text item you wish to retrieve the colour of.

Returns

Returns four integers in RGBA format, with a maximum value of 255 for each. Each stands for red, green, blue, and alpha. Alpha decides transparancy where 255 is opaque and 0 is transparent. false is returned if the blip is invalid.

Example

This example gets the color of a textitem named 'textitem' and if it is green, changes it to blue.

r,g,b,a = textItemGetColor ( textitem ) --get the text color and define it as 'r','g','b' and 'a'
if ( r == 0 ) and ( g == 255 ) and ( b == 0 ) then --the the color is green only
    textItemSetColor ( textitem, 0, 0, 255, 255 ) --set the color to blue
end

See Also

• textCreateDisplay
• textCreateTextItem
• textDestroyDisplay
• textDestroyTextItem
• textDisplayAddObserver
• textDisplayAddText
• textDisplayGetObservers
• textDisplayIsObserver
• textDisplayRemoveObserver
• textDisplayRemoveText
• textItemGetColor
• textItemGetPosition
• textItemGetPriority
• textItemGetScale
• textItemGetText
• textItemSetColor
• textItemSetPosition
• textItemSetPriority
• textItemSetScale
• textItemSetText