PgColor.parse

Fill in the fields of a color from a string specification. The string can either one of a large set of standard names. (Taken from the CSS <ulink url="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#named-colors">specification</ulink>), or it can be a hexadecimal value in the form '&num;rgb' '&num;rrggbb' '&num;rrrgggbbb' or '&num;rrrrggggbbbb' where 'r', 'g' and 'b' are hex digits of the red, green, and blue components of the color, respectively. (White in the four forms is '&num;fff' '&num;ffffff' '&num;fffffffff' and '&num;ffffffffffff')

class PgColor
bool
parse
(
string spec
)

Parameters

spec string

a string specifying the new color

Return: %TRUE if parsing of the specifier succeeded, otherwise false.

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