Colors and Palettes
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PDesign4 Touch Panel Design Software (v2.10 or higher)
Colors and Palettes
Working With Colors
A key feature of TPDesign4 is it's ability to utilize the full 32-bit RGB color palette, which allows you to
specify RGB (Red, Blue and Green) values, plus Hue, Saturation, Brightness and Opacity. The RGB
palette offers millions of possible colors that can be applied to fills (pages, popup pages, and buttons),
transparencies (popup pages and buttons), and text (pages, popup pages and buttons).
TPDesign4 also allows you to save or load custom palettes. Every color element that is not assigned
either directly via an RGB selection or the named color table will reference this palette and be affected
by any changes made to it. Palettes are saved as part of the panel file.
Additionally, TPDesign4 supports the importing of either a JASC® formatted palette file, a Microsoft®
formatted palette file, or a custom palette file previously saved from within the application.
Color assignments are made through the Colors dialog (FIG. 68). There are several ways to open the
Colors dialog:
When setting new button parameters, click on the Border Color, Fill Color or Text Color
toolbar icons to open the base palette, then click More Colors.
Click to select an existing page, popup page or button, and click on Fill Color in the States tab
of the Properties Control Window.
The Colors dialog supports three ways to select colors from the RGB color palette:
1. RGB Color: a full-feature RGB palette that allows you specify RGB (plus Hue, Saturation,
Brightness and Opacity) values numerically, or by dragging the cursor around the palette. The RGB
palette offers millions of possible colors.
2. Palette Index: a default palette that provides the Base 88 colors (which the can be modified if
desired). The Palette Index offers a maximum of 255 colors.
FIG. 68 Colors dialog
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