How do I change colours in the Drawing Canvas?

I have a database that has saved 350 drawings from Construct 2. I have the X Pos, the Y Pos and the colour.

Example - 256,720,black

However, for some reason I can't get my head around, in Construct 3 I can no longer simply put in a colour. Instead, I have to have 256,720,rbgex(0,0,0).

"Ok, that's fine," I thought, "I'll just set up a few events that will change black to the rgba codes."

So I create a string variable, then if it detects "black" in the 3rd array, it'll change it to the rbgex code.

However, that doesn't work because the Drawing Canvas can only work with numbers. If I try to put my new colour variable into it, it won't work.

So I change the variable into a number instead. However, now I can't have "rgbex" at the start! In fact, I can't even use the commas separating the numbers!

In the end I went back over to the string variable and used a tokenat expression.

So... just to confirm:

Construct 3 = rgbEx(int(tokenat(Drawing.Colour,0,",")),int(tokenat(Drawing.Colour,1,",")),int(tokenat(Drawing.Colour,2,",")))

Construct 2 = black

Give me a break! Please, someone tell me there's an easier way! I now have to go in and set this up for every colour I decided to use. Luckily for me, I only used about 9 colours, but what would I do if I had used more? Is there a smarter way to do this?

I love Construct 3, but I'm hating this one step forward, one step back feeling I'm getting.

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I agree it's not very useful at the moment.

You need to extract the name of the color into a text variable, and then do something like this:

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Or you can get the numerical values for all 9 colors and replace them in the database. For example, "blue" is -1049599

Thanks!

That's what I ended up doing, but with that token expression. When I tried to write "rgbex(0,0,0)" or (0,0,0) into the number instance variable, it wouldn't let me. I didn't then think to simply write it in as an action.

newt - https://construct3.ideas.aha.io/ideas/C3-I-1347

Did this 2 weeks ago :D

I think what we need is a way to use palettes.

The color tools are kind of a mess any way, not that there's a perfect solution.