VS::Chart::Color - Solid colors
Creates a new instance with the color specified by either specifiying each component. Components should normally be defined as a decimal fraction from 0 to 1. Components may also be specified as a value from 0 to 255 but if any compoenent is specified as such all components will considered to be specified in the same way.
For simplicitiy it is also possible to specify a hexadecimal string with leading # as HTML. This must be either 6 or 8 characters long. If it's 8 characters the last two are considered to be alpha.
An alpha value of 1 (255 or #ff) is non-translucent.
Returns the color with the predefined NAME.
Predefined colors are (in hexadecimal form without alpha):
# Colors white #ffffff black #000000 red #ff0000 green #00ff00 blue #0000ff # Specific items on the chart grid #cccccc axis #333333 major_tick #333333 minor_tick #eeeeee text #000000 border #000000 # Colors for 16 series which may be repated dataset_0 #2e578c dataset_1 #5d9648 dataset_2 #e7a13d dataset_3 #bc2d30 dataset_4 #6f3d79 dataset_5 #7d807f dataset_6 #41699b dataset_7 #6ea45a dataset_8 #eaad55 dataset_9 #c54346 dataset_10 #814f8b dataset_11 #8e9190 dataset_12 #577caa dataset_13 #80b26e dataset_14 #eeb96d dataset_15 #ce5b5d
Returns a color either by spec (SEE new above), an existing instance COLOR or the default if SPEC or COLOR couldn't be handled correctly or are 1.
Sets the color to be the corrent drawing color for CONTEXT.
Returns the color as a hexadecimal formated string suitable for using in CSS. Returned string is prefixed with #.
