Re: ImageColorAllocate() Problem

Hi, Friday, October 3, 2003, 4:23:27 PM, you wrote: JRB> I am having a bizzare problem with the imagecolorallocate() function. Maybe JRB> all of you can help me! JRB> Here is the code: JRB> $hex1 = "0x".$color{0}.$color{1}; JRB> $hex2 = "0x".$color{2}.$color{3}; JRB> $hex3 = "0x".$color{4}.$color{5}; JRB> $color = ImageColorAllocate($im, $hex1, $hex2, $hex3); JRB> Simple enough! $color starts off as a hex color code minus the #, and then JRB> is pulled into each of the 3 alpha values by way for the hex variables. It JRB> is later outputted in text: JRB> ImageTTFText ($im, $cursive_size, 0, $text1_x, $text1_y, $color, $font1, JRB> $cursive_text); JRB> Problem: The text is always black. JRB> Something strange: If I just type in a randomly selected color, it works! JRB> Is there some reason that the values in my variables wouldn't be passing? JRB> Thanks in advance, JRB> Jed R. Brubaker Use hexdec() function $hex1 = hexdec(substr($color,0,2}); $hex2 = hexdec(substr($color,2,2}); $hex3 = hexdec(substr($color,4,2}); and it just passes normal numbers to ImageColorAllocate($im, $hex1, $hex2, $hex3) -- regards, Tom