Colors

Specifies all the colors of an object(glossary), in shorthand form.Syntax:

set the colors of <object> to <colorsList>

Examples:

put the colors of this stack into field "Colors"

put "blue" & return & \
  "#EE98AA" & return & \
  line 5 of the colorNames & return & \
  220,180,200 & return & \
  "yellow" & return & \
  200,200,60 & return & \
  "#334433" & return & \
  "pink" into field "colors"
set the colors of button "mybtn" to field "colors"

set the colors of this stack to the colors of stack "Home"

Use the colors property to get all eight basic color properties at once, or to set the colors of one object(glossary) to be the same as the colors of another object(glossary).

For objects other than images, you can set all these colors individually; the colors property simply provides a shorter method of dealing with all of them at once. Each line of the colors corresponds to one of the following color properties :

Line 1: the foregroundColor
Line 2: the backgroundColor
Line 3: the hiliteColor
Line 4: the borderColor
Line 5: the topColor
Line 6: the bottomColor
Line 7: the shadowColor
Line 8: the focusColor

If you leave a line blank when setting the colors, the color property corresponding to that line is left unchanged.

If the colors property of an object(glossary) reports a blank line, that color is not set for the individual object(glossary), but is inherited from the object's owner. Use the form the effective colors of object(glossary) to obtain the colors used for the object, whether set for the object(glossary) or inherited.

If a pattern is set for an object(glossary), that pattern is used instead of the corresponding color for that object(glossary).

See also: foregroundColor (property),backgroundColor (property),hiliteColor (property),borderColor (property),topColor (property),bottomColor (property),shadowColor (property),focusColor (property),linkColor (property),linkHiliteColor (property),owner (property),patterns (property),properties (property),

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