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Color property default values

by Scott Goodwin · in Torque X 2D · 10/01/2008 (10:09 pm) · 1 replies

Is it possible to set a default value for a Color property?

The following doesn't work the way I hoped:

[TorqueXmlSchemaType(DefaultValue = "Red")]
public Color Whatever
{
    get { return _whatever; }
    set { _whatever = value; }
}

In TXB, this shows up as PackedValue 0.
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Torque Owner Scott Goodwin
#1
10/02/2008 (9:25 am)
What I did as a work around is:

//TODO: add all colors defined in Color.
    public enum Colors : uint
    {
        Black = 0xff000000,
        Blue = 0xff0000ff,
        DarkBlue = 0xff00008b,
        DarkGray = 0xffa9a9a9,
        DarkGreen = 0xff006400,
        DarkRed = 0xff8b0000,
        Gray = 0xff808080,
        Green = 0xff00ff00,
        Red = 0xffff0000,
        White = 0xffffffff,
        Yellow = 0xffffff00,
     }
 
    [TorqueXmlSchemaType(DefaultValue = "Red" )]
    public Colors Whatever
    {
        get { return _whatever; }
        set { _whatever = value; }
    }
  
    //use to convert from enum to Color
    public Color AsColor(Colors packedColor)
    {
        Color color = new Color();
        color.PackedValue = (uint)packedColor;
        return color;
     }

Is there a better way? Having to define the enum is a pain.