Not too much important but it's about vocabulary. The color page makes reference to hi/truecolor modes twice, but it's not too much defined.
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(In hi/truecolor modes, only the foreground color is returned, taking up the whole 32 bits.)
I know that the maximal color "depth" is 32bits. And I think it could be guessed. But those questions are not free of confusing things. If truecolor is 32 bits, what about 24bits and 16 bits? Which of those is hi-color mode?Description
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While in hi/truecolor modes, you can use the RGB or RGBA macro to obtain a valid color value.
In this link : http://ask-leo.com/what_is_the_differen ... color.html, we read:
Same link admit that:Windows tends to use terms "Medium", "High" and "Highest" to represent the different alternatives
So it could be useful to make a little remark about what is to be heard by hi/truecolor here. Or simply naming things "16bits-mode, 24bits-mode, 32bits-mode" which would remove the interogations.I've seen "True" color used to refer to either 24 or 32 bit settings. It follows that "High" could mean 16 or 24. Needless to say, pay attention to the bits-per-pixel; the 16, 24 or 32
I suppose that there is something like that as an equivalent without ambiguity?
Oh and second thing. This is quite sad that this tip (given by Lothar Schirm here, but not known of everyone) is not given or underlined by any mean (link, example or anything) in the color page:...
Very low: 4bits
Low: 8bits
Medium: 16bits
High:24bits
Highest:32bits
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ScreenControl FB.GET_COLOR, fgcolor, bkcolor
Print "Foreground Color: "; Hex(fgcolor, 6)
Print "Background Color: "; Hex(bkcolor, 6)