Color

Initializing the Color Class

The Color constructor creates a Color object.

Parameter	Description
value	The color’s value. This can be specified in four different ways: Hex RGB Web string A valid ColorType.

Constructing with a Hex value.

# Construct a yellow Color "yellow" with the Color class.
yellow = Color(0xfff700)

Constructing with RGB values.

# Construct a yellow Color "yellow" with the Color class.
yellow = Color(255, 247, 0)

Constructing with a web string.

# Construct a yellow Color "yellow" with the Color class.
yellow = Color("#fff700")

Constructing with an existing Color Type.

# Construct a yellow Color "yellow" with the Color class.
yellow = Color(Color.YELLOW)

This yellow object will be used in all subsequent examples throughout this API documentation when referring to Color class methods.

Class Methods

rgb()

The rgb(value) method changes the existing color instance using RGB values.

Parameters	Description
value	The color value to be changed into an rgb value.

Returns: An integer value representing the color.

# Change "yellow" to a different color using RGB values.
yellow.rgb(255, 200, 0)

hsv()

The hsv(hue, saturation, value) method changes the existing color instance using hsv.

Parameters	Description
hue	An integer from 0 to 360 that represents the hue of the color.
saturation	A double from 0.0 to 1.0 that represents the saturation of the color.
value	A double from 0.0 to 1.0 that represents the brightness of the color.

Returns: An integer value representing the color.

# Change yellow to a different color using HSV values.
color.hsv(47, 1, 1)

web()

The web(value) method changes the existing color instance using a webstring.

Parameters	Description
value	The color value in web format.

Returns: An integer value representing the color.

# Change yellow to a different color using a webstring value.
yellow.web("#ffc800")

is_transparent()

The is_transparent() method returns if the color is transparent or not.

Returns: True if the color is transparent. False if it is not.