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Steve, For a long time I've thought about writing a function to provide a best-match reverse lookup of the X Windows color names database (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names). This would give you 144 colors (rather than 2^24). (actually, somewhat less than 144 colors since some names like "Cyan" and "Aqua" map to the same RGB tuple). Thus, 255:255:0 is "Yellow", but so would be 255:250:0. However, 255:215:0 is "Gold", as would be 255:220:0. Somewhere as green got more prominent (more than 220 but less than 250) "Gold" would switch to "Yellow". And it would get more complex as we get some Blue in the mix... etc. Alas I don't have the time to put into something like this, but perhaps someone else on this list does? Peter On 1/30/2012 2:07 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: I don't think this is a Libreoffice problem. I think this is what you get from gnome. Actually, this is the most precise information you can get. Yes, color names would be better but less precise; so as long as both options are kept available, it would be good. I have an idea though. If I were to write a function, I would merely pass the RBG values to the function and it could dial in a subscript from an array of 256 values for each of the 3 numbers. But as I brain storm this right now, I see that this wouldn't do it either because you have combinations so really, you end up with 255 taken to the 3rd power! that's a huge number! So back to more brain storming <smile>. On 1/30/12, Paul Hunt <paul-leics virginmedia com> wrote:That would be an interesting little programming exercise. I suppose one could examine each component of the triplet and have a set of rules that said, okay, if there's that much red and that much green and that much blue then it's that colour... Better if Libre Office gave us something more human readable than RG values though! On 30/01/12 21:08, Christopher Chaltain wrote:Great, got it! Thanks! It appears that I'm getting an RGB triplet with the values ranging from 0 to 255. This seems doable at the moment, but do you know if anyone has any ideas on how Orca can figure out human readable colors from this information? Seems like kind of a nasty issue to solve. On 30/01/12 14:28, Paul Hunt wrote:By default, Orca does not include colour information in the list of attributes that you get with insert + F. You can add colour info to the list using the text attributes tab of the Orca preferences dialogue. Unfortunately though, currently you get a numeric value rather than a colour name when you do this. I think it's a hexadecimal representation of the colour. On 30/01/12 20:08, Christopher Chaltain wrote:Is there a way to get the color information for a cell in Libre Office Calc? It doesn't look like this information is part of the text attributes I get with the Orca+f key. I also didn't see it when looking around the key bindings or learn mode._______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp --
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