Pinnacle Speakers DEKO500 User Manual

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rgb red= green= blue=

The parameters represent the amounts (from 0 to 100) of red, blue and green that
make up the color created by the 

rgb

 command.

You can assign an object to a variable:

$yellow = rgb 100 100 0

It is not necessary to assign objects to variables before passing them to other
commands. You can specify an object parameter with an embedded command,
indicated by parentheses:

ramp top_left=(rgb 100 100 0)

You can access any element of an object with the element operator (:), to edit the
element’s value or to assign it to a variable for use elsewhere.

To edit 

$yellow

 to make it a little less green:

$yellow:green = 80.

The green level of 

$yellow

 was 

100

. It is now 

80

.

To assign the green element of 

$yellow

 to the variable 

$grn

:

$grn = $yellow:green

To determine the data type of an object, use the 

objtype

 command:.

objtype object=

You may encounter situations in which you must convert a value of one data type to
another data type. Use the following processes to convert various types of data.

Add the integer to 0.0 or multiply it by 1.0.

$a = 123

$b = $a*1.0

$b equals 123.0

1.  Use the command: 

integer

2.

Deko500 truncates the real number. To round numbers accurately, add
.5 to the real number.

$a = 12.7

$b = integer $a+.5

$b equals 13

Do one of the following:

 

Use the command: 

num2str