Hexadecimal translation

Question

I downloaded a flash player that has changeable settings. I am trying to change the color of the playlist. Problem is...it's using hex's I have never seen before. The existing hex is 0xdadada (for example, the style of hex) and when I tried to change it to #E1E1E1,which is normally a lighter grey, it came out all black.

Does anyone know of a chart or site that translates Oxdadada style hexs to the #E1E1E1 style hex?

Answer 1

Those should be the same. 0xE1E1E1 and #E1E1E1 mean the same thing. The difference is that in a Flash/Flex stylesheet you need to use the # prefix or your colors won't show up, while elsewhere you are encouraged to use 0x.

0x prefix, by the way, signals a numerical value, and the hexadecimal value for style colors is a uint data type.

Answer 2

They are the same thing, except for one starting with 0x and the other starting with #.

Instead of entering #E1E1E1 just enter 0xE1E1E1.

Chances are that the software was looking for a value starting with 0x, and when it saw yours starting with # it defaulted to a numeric value of zero, which of course would be shown as black.

Answer 3

Perhaps it expects a color string starting with 0x. Did you try just 0xe1e1e1?

Answer 4

Probably is the same, but try to keep the same formatting.

However it's possible that the format may be reversed. For instance the HTML format #RRGGBB may need to be translated to 0xBBGGRR, but that will depend on the specifics of the software implementation.