Color code / background color

[Swingie]

Hi

I´m searching the color code for "seagreen" for using in EFS.
Besides that, I wonder how to change the background color for certain time cycles, for instance premarket, regular session, afterhours.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Swingie

[gspiker]

Swingie,

With efs you can specify an RGB value where it calls for a Color.
So instead of using Color.red for a parameter, you could also do Color.RGB(255,0,0). If you play with it enough you should be able to get the color you want.

If you want to change color due to time, you will have to use the getValue("Time") or getValue("RawTime") functions and use a conditional to check for specific times. For example for getValue time you would use the getHours() and getMinutes() functions like this:

[code]

vTime = getValue("Time");

if (vTime.getHours() == 7 && vTime.getMinutes() == 30){ // Is it 7:30?
setBarBgColor(Color.RGD(0,200,150); // Change BG color
}
[code]

[Swingie]

Thank you very much for your help

[gspiker]

No Problem. Just be aware that getValue("Time") has some signifigant overhead associated with it. I wouldn't run too many formulas doing this opperation at the same time, or you could run into some CPU overhead issues.

"RawTime" was created to combat some of these issues, and its scope will be expanded soon, but it is not well documented at this time.

[mattgundersen]

In one of the upcoming releases we'll have

getYear(...)
getMonth(...)
getDay(...)
getHour(...)
getMinute(...)
getSecond(...)

This way you won't need to do all that / and % stuff with RawTime.?????

m.