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Thnx,
    It was the damndest thing. My comp was on the fritz. For some =
reason, the prog worked just fine with the hex values, but if I used a =
numerical value instead it would just be black. I had other strange =
problems too. But I solved it all with a reboot.

Chris
  This is a common misconception.  Hex, binary, decimal, octal, and even =
ASCII characters are all different *representations* of the same number. =
 When passing colors as atoms, it doesn't matter whether you use hex or =
decimal.  If I say 255 or #FF, it's the same.  Many people are just more =
comfortable with hex representation from programming HTML.  On the other =
hand, when passing as strings, it may be quite important which format =
you use depending on how the routine parses the string.  But as you =
already mentioned, sprintf handles that situation quite nicely.

  HTH,
  Michael J. Sabal


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<DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3D"Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It =
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damndest thing. My comp was on the fritz. For some reason, the prog =
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