Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T0 TJ087LL/A User Manual

RGB(red;green;blue)

red - any numeric 

 containing a value ranging from 0 to 255

green - any numeric expression or numeric field containing a value ranging from 0 to 255
blue - any numeric expression or numeric field containing a value ranging from 0 to 255

number

Returns an integer number from 0 to 16777215 obtained by combining the red, green, 

and blue values (each ranging from 0 to 255) to represent a color. Numbers returned by 

this function can be passed as the color parameter in the TextColor or 
TextColorRemove functions. The RGB function uses the following formula to calculate 

the result:

red * 256

2

 + green * 256 + blue 

where 256

2

 = 65536

RGB(255;0;0) returns 

 representing red.

RGB(0;255;0) returns 

 representing green.

RGB(0;0;255) returns 

 representing blue.

RGB(0;0;0) returns 

 representing black.

RGB(255;255;255) returns 

 representing white.

TextColor(text;RGB(red;green;blue))

text - any 

RGB(red;green;blue) - any integer number from 0 to 16777215 obtained by 

combining the red, green, and blue values (each ranging from 0 to 255) to represent a 

color