VGA to HTML Hex Table

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DCrawshawJr
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VGA to HTML Hex Table

Post by DCrawshawJr »

I've been working on a number of projects in many languages (PHP, MySqli, and now Python), and I've got a bunch of old FreeBasic RPG tiles that I'd like to transfer over to work with modern programming languages.

So, what I've done is convert each of the 256 VGA color codes into an HTML hex value. A pain in the butt to do, but thank God for GIMP, where you can use the eyedropper to click on any pixel on the screen, and it will show you it's corresponding HTML hex value.

I wrote a small program in FreeBasic that displays all the VGA colors, then I went to work on the hex values.

You can download the table here: http://www.thesweepingdeveloper.com/vga_to_html.txt

Hope this helps!
dodicat
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Re: VGA to HTML Hex Table

Post by dodicat »

Here is a simple picker for windows.

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Type screenpoint
    As long x,y
End Type
'Windows job lot :
Extern "windows" Lib "user32"
Declare Function GetDC Alias "GetDC" (Byval As Any Ptr) As Any Ptr
Declare Function PopBeep Alias "MessageBeep" (Byval As long) As long
End Extern
Extern "windows" Lib "gdi32"
Declare Function _point Alias "GetPixel"(Byval As Any Ptr,Byval As long,Byval As long) As Ulong
End Extern
Declare Function _getmouse Alias "GetCursorPos" (Byval As Any Pointer) As long
Declare Function NoConsole Alias "FreeConsole" () As long
Declare Function SetWindowTheme Lib "UxTheme.dll" Alias "SetWindowTheme"(As Any Ptr,As zstring Ptr,As zstring Ptr) As Long 


Dim Shared As integer xres,yres
'=============================
function HTML(v as ulong) as string
    dim as string hx=hex(v)
    hx=string(6-len(hx),"0")+hx
    swap hx[0],hx[4]
    swap hx[1],hx[5]
return hx
end function
'=======================================
Dim As Any Ptr MyScreen = GetDC(0)
Dim As Ulong v

Screenres 200,200,32,,&h20 or &h40 or &h80
Dim Win As Any Ptr=screenptr
Var Ip = Cptr(Integer Ptr,@Win )
Screencontrol 2,*Ip
SetWindowTheme(win," "," ")
Windowtitle "[   MOVE    ]"
Screeninfo xres,yres 
width xres\8,yres\16
NoConsole
Dim As Ubyte r,g,b
Color ,RGB (236,233,216)
Dim As screenpoint m
dim as string key,s="  " +chr(13)+chr(10),msg="<space> to save a colour" 
dim as long counter
dim as integer x,y
redim as ulong c(0)
Do
    key=inkey
    if key=" "  then 
        counter+=1
        redim preserve c(1 to counter)
        popbeep(0)
var bb=string(3-len(str(b)),"0")+str(b),rr=string(3-len(str(r)),"0")+str(r),gg=string(3-len(str(g)),"0")+str(g)
var sp=string(6-len(hex(v))," ")
        s+= "RGB (" & bb &"," & gg &"," & rr &")"+ "   HEX &h"+hex(v)+sp+"   HTML #"+HTML(v) +chr(13)+chr(10)
        c(counter)=rgb(bb,gg,rr)
    end if
    _getmouse @m
    screencontrol 0,x,y
'if m.x>x and m.x<x+xres and m.y>y and m.y<y+yres then msg="" else msg="<space> to save a colour" 
    Screenlock
    Cls
    Locate 1,1
    Color 0
    print "X,Y   ";str(m.x);",";str(m.y)
    Print "Red   ";b
    Print "Green ";g
    Print "Blue  ";r
    print
    locate 10,1
    print "HEX   &h";hex(v,6)
    draw string(0,180),msg,rgb(0,0,0)
    print "HTML   #";HTML(v)
    Line(100-30,100-30)-(100+30,100+30),Rgb(b,g,r),bf
    Line(100-30,100-30)-(100+30,100+30),Rgb(0,0,0),b
    v=_point(MyScreen,m.x,m.y)
    r= Cptr(Ubyte Ptr,@v)[2] 'Or just use the standard r,g,b extract method
    g= Cptr(Ubyte Ptr,@v)[1] 'but this method is a tad faster
    b= Cptr(Ubyte Ptr,@v)[0]
    Screenunlock
    Sleep 1,1
Loop Until key=Chr(255,107) or key=chr(27)
 if s<>"  " +chr(13)+chr(10) then
screenres 800,700,32
width 800\8,700\16
windowtitle "Colours picked  (" & counter &" colours)."
print s
for z as long=1 to ubound(c)
    line(400,4+16*z)-(600,4+16*z+8),c(z),bf
    next z
var f=freefile
open "colours.txt" for output as #f
print #f,s
close #f
s=command(0)
dim as long i=instrrev(s,"\")
s=mid(s,1,i) + "colours.txt"
print "printed to ";s
print "Press a key to exit"
sleep
end if
  
DCrawshawJr
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Re: VGA to HTML Hex Table

Post by DCrawshawJr »

That is AWESOME. Thanks!
sancho3
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Re: VGA to HTML Hex Table

Post by sancho3 »

I am sorry that you worked so hard with Gimp and point and click.
Have a look at the Palette command in FreeBASIC and the Get option for it.
I just built a color picker tool and looked for an easy way to find the default palette colors and came accross Palette Get.
If the Get option is specified, Palette retrieves instead of setting color values for the current palette.
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Re: VGA to HTML Hex Table

Post by counting_pine »

For what it's worth, DOSBox's VGA palette is stored in the vga_palette[][] array here, in case you want something slightly more official to check it against:

https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/code-0 ... s.cpp#l329
(Just note that it's stored in bytes, in R,G,B order, with a range 0..3f)

We also have FreeBASIC's VGA palette here in an image: GfxDefPalettes, but no text form. (I'm not sure how we settled on the last two bits in our palette..)
We store the values somewhat opaquely in a 768-byte binary file in our repo: https://github.com/freebasic/fbc/tree/m ... b2/gfxdata
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