Use Variable For Color?

Is there a way to use a variable to represent a color?

I want to set the color of a text object to a global variable value, ie "activeColor". Is there some way to simply set the rgb of the text object to the variable value, or is the only way to create a custom function for this?

You mean something like this?

set activeColor to rgb(22, 33, 44)

Text set font color to activeColor

Yes, that is what I want to do. From what I've tried, however, the editor refuses to accept setting color using anything other than integers within the rgb() function -- it believes anything besides numbers is a string.

So I'll hopefully ask again, can this be done?

Are you sure your variable is not Text type?

This works fine for me:

You're right, I was trying different methods of evaluating a string rgb(0,0,0).

Your option will work, thank you.