TextEdit (Lion) - color text

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#1

question:
Did something change in Lion. Before using rgb with 3 digit rgb worked now it takes 5?

copy this text to textedit:
color1
color2

use this script

tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	tell text of document 1 --(or front document)
		set the color of every word where it is "color1" to {60000, 0, 0}
		set the color of every word where it is "color2" to {255, 0, 0}
	end tell
end tell

expected results:
both color1, color2 text should turn red

actual:
only color1 turns red

#2

Hi.

It’s the same in Snow Leopard and Tiger. What were you using before?

#3

Hmm snow leopard. Maybe my understanding of RGB is incorrect since i assumed it was 255 at its max with 3 digits but it seems you can exceed that. (assumption based on photoshop color selector)

#4

The maximum is 65535 ” 16-bit values rather than 8-bit.

#5

could you please recommend a tool to help define 16bit color?

#6

I don’t know about tools, but if you know the 8-bit values ” eg. as per the Mac OS colour-picker’s RGB sliders ” the conversion formula (for TextEdit, at least) appears to be to multiply by 257.

#7

thanks that simplifies it greatly. Appreciate it