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Is it possible to get a light-blue color?

 
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Ever-helping ranchers,
In my application I want to use light-blue color.
Color.blue always gives a darker version of the color.
How to get & use light-blue color?
Throw some light on this?
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Did you take a look at the Color API? I am sure there must be methods to make a color darker (hint) or brighter(hint).
 
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Thanks manish for your observations, but still the challenge is not succeeded.


Some error trace :


I'm not worried about the others.
If somebody could help me in getting that lightblue color I would be happy.
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The exceptions are generated because you are trying access the System resources from an unsigned applet.
Why are you trying to print it out? I mean you can see it on the screen right?
 
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Ok.
Lets get it over and done with.
Use something like
or
The API will give you information on what the 4 parameters mean.
 
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This is working fine.
While the other when I tried it with


was not working fine.

But anyhow thanks for the information maneesh.
Meanwhile how did you know of the parameters
new Color(0,0,182,155)

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Dear Ramya,



found in the site :

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Color.html



i hope this helps.

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And to get the rgb values of a Color that you want, use a Color Picker.
Or try it out on MS Paint or even Word.
 
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ramya narayanan wrote:
Meanwhile how did you know of the parameters
new Color(0,0,182,155)



Because unlike you, I read the whole API carefully (Just kidding)
It is just one of the things you tend to pick up, playing around with stuff. Ever wanted to make over transparent UI components? Then the 'alpha' is your friend.

One interesting point with the brighter.
It is perfectly legal to do this until you are satisfied.


 
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Helping ranchers,
First of all my humble thanks to all maneesh, sridhar & others who have shared their expertise & made my job easier.

And to get the rgb values of a Color that you want, use a Color Picker.
Or try it out on MS Paint or even Word.



1) How to get that rgb values using that?

2) Also when I went through the API there are two constructors with & without alpha value.
What is this alpha value & what is its significance?

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Ever-helping ranchers,

But this is not changing into lightblue color which I want.
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Maneesh has told you what "alpha" means, and there is more about it in the Color class.

This looks like a GUI-related thread, so it would be more appropriate for the Swing forum. Moving.
 
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From the API page for the Color class:


The Color class is used to encapsulate colors in the default sRGB color space or colors in arbitrary color spaces identified by a ColorSpace. Every color has an implicit alpha value of 1.0 or an explicit one provided in the constructor. The alpha value defines the transparency of a color and can be represented by a float value in the range 0.0 - 1.0 or 0 - 255. An alpha value of 1.0 or 255 means that the color is completely opaque and an alpha value of 0 or 0.0 means that the color is completely transparent. When constructing a Color with an explicit alpha or getting the color/alpha components of a Color, the color components are never premultiplied by the alpha component.

 
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Take a look at this color picker. Once you have the color code you want, change the hex code (#XXXXXX) to RGB values. The first two is Red, The next two Green and last two Blue.

Or better there must be some color picker which gives you directly RGB values.
 
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Word - > Font Color -> more colors -> Custom-> select the color and get the RGB values.

Hope this helps.
 
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//tried a bit, might require some more work, blue shade of the label changes based on alpha value
 
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