This is the documentation for the Realbasic Plugins from Monkeybreadsoftware.de. You find these plugins and the newest version of this document at http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic inside the plugins section.
This help was last updated on Freitag, 6. September 2002 and covers 2136 items: 126 classes, 2 controls and 583 global functions.
| The list of the themes | Global methods by category | Global methods by name | The list of the classes | The list of the controls |
class Palette | ||||
| class, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
A color palette. | ||||
count as integer | ||||
| property, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
How many colors are inside this palette. | ||||
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Notes:
This property should be 2, 4, 16 or 256. Default is 256. | ||||
CountColors as integer | ||||
| method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Counts how many different colors are in the palette. | ||||
Mem as memoryblock | ||||
| method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns a memoryblock to the binary data of this palette. | ||||
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Notes:
The block is 1024 bytes big and contains 256 32bit values like 00RRGGBB. The memoryblock is only valid as long as the palette object is living. | ||||
NewPicture(width as integer,height as integer) as picture | ||||
| method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Creates a new picture using this palette. | ||||
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Notes:
On Windows, RB can only work with 32bit picture so this function will return a 32bit picture for you. | ||||
Palette as Palette | ||||
| property, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: -> nil. | ||
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Function:
Set or get the palette of this picture. | ||||
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Notes:
On Windows, allways nil. May return nil if no palette is used for that picture. | ||||
NewBluePalette as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns a 256 color palette with blue shades. | ||||
NewGrayPalette as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns a 256 color palette with grays. | ||||
NewGreenPalette as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns a 256 color palette with green shades. | ||||
NewPalette(count as integer) as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Makes a new palette with the given number of colors. | ||||
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Notes:
Same as: p=new palette p.count=count return p | ||||
NewPalmPalette as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns the Palm system color palette. | ||||
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Notes:
If you want to make 256 color pictures for use on a Palm, you may need that on a Mac. | ||||
NewRedPalette as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns a 256 color palette with red shades. | ||||
NewSystemPalette as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns the system color palette. | ||||
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Notes:
On Windows it's a hard coded palette as you can only read the current palette when the user uses 8bit video. | ||||
NewWebPalette as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns a 256 color palette with the 216 websave colors. | ||||
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Notes:
The palette has 256 colors, but only 216 are used. | ||||
NewWindowsPalette as palette | ||||
| global method, Graphics & Pictures | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Returns the Windows system color palette. | ||||
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Notes:
If you want to make 256 color pictures for use on Windows, you may need that on a Mac. | ||||
Written 2002 by Christian Schmitz. Feel free to ask or report mistakes to realbasic@macsw.de.
Thanks.