Question

Iterating through colors

Asked by: Casba

Hey, I'm pretty much a noob programmer and I was messing around with loops and wanted to create something like this:

GREY
GREY
GREY
GREY
GREY
GREY
GREY
GREY
GREY

Where the first “grey” is the colour “#000000”, the next is “#111111”, then “#222222” and so on up to “#999999”

Can someone help me out?

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2005-02-23 at 11:02:42ID21326373
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Answers

 

by: CasbaPosted on 2005-02-23 at 11:07:23ID: 13385698

Oh also can you do it so it comes out like
                                                    GREY
                                            GREY
                                    GREY
                            GREY
                    GREY
           GREY

Where the first “grey” is the colour “#000000”, the next is “#111111”, then “#222222” and so on up to “#999999”

 

by: brunobearPosted on 2005-02-23 at 11:13:46ID: 13385766

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<body>

<%
dim colorNum, colorString

colorNum = 0

for colorNum = 0 to 9
    colorString = colorNum & colorNum & colorNum & colorNum & colorNum & colorNum
    response.write "<span style=""color: #" & colorString & """>Color</span><br />" & vbCrLf
Next
%>
</body>
</html>

 

by: brunobearPosted on 2005-02-23 at 11:14:46ID: 13385777

why the indentation?

what do you need this for?

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 11:15:27ID: 13385786

Casba,

You can use a For Next Loop


For intX = 0 to 9

  strGrey = "#"
  For intY = 1 to 6
    strGrey = strGrey + intY
  Next

  Response.Write strGrey
Next

Bubs

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 11:16:04ID: 13385793

Sorry an error in mine

For intX = 0 to 9

  strGrey = "#"
  For intY = 1 to 6
    strGrey = strGrey + intX
  Next

  Response.Write strGrey
Next

Bubs

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 11:16:55ID: 13385797

sorry brunobear... mine is really the same just a little different way.  Bubs

 

by: brunobearPosted on 2005-02-23 at 11:18:48ID: 13385815

no problem Bubs :-)

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 11:23:30ID: 13385881

If you wish to move it like that even though not sure why, you will have to use the &nbsp; character so many times so you can do something like what you are needing.  Below will start the word Grey over after 25 spaces and then each time bring it back 5 spaces until it is out only 5 spaces.

For intX = 1 to 5
  strColor = ""
  intY = 30 - (intX * 5)
  For intSpace = 1 to intY
    strColor = strColor + "&nbsp;"
  Next
  strColor = strColor + "Grey"
  Response.Write strColor & "<br />"
Next

Bubs

 

by: CasbaPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:16:23ID: 13386468

thanks for the quick responses guys but bubs, do this code work on your machine:

For intX = 0 to 9

  strGrey = "#"   <--------------------------------------I get an "type mistmatch: '[string: "#"]'."
  For intY = 1 to 6
    strGrey = strGrey + intX
  Next

  Response.Write strGrey
Next

 

by: brunobearPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:21:52ID: 13386524

Casba,

did my code work for you?

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:25:33ID: 13386574

I will have to test mine.   Will get right back to you. Bubs

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:28:46ID: 13386617

Sorry I needed to convert intX to a string instead of a number.  Also added a line break to each printed line so it moves to the next line.  It does now work.


<%
For intX = 0 to 9
  strGrey="#"
  For intY = 1 to 6
    strGrey = strGrey + CStr(intX)
  Next

  Response.Write strGrey & "<br />"
Next
%>

Bubs

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:31:48ID: 13386656

brunobear's code should work as well and even colors the text color for you. Bubs

 

by: CasbaPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:31:54ID: 13386658

brunobear, yours works perfectly, but I don't understand your style and how it worked.  

Can I award points to both of you guys if bubba gets his working?

 

by: CasbaPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:36:09ID: 13386710

Bubs are you sure??  Sorry to be a pain.

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:38:45ID: 13386748

Yeah I tested it again and it still works.  Can you post your code?  

You can split points and it will allow you to give more to brunobear than me, if you so wish to give me any points at all.

Bubs

 

by: brunobearPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:44:33ID: 13386827

you can certainly split the points.

what of my code don't you understand, i will try to explain?

 

by: BubbaisBestPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:46:27ID: 13386847

I have no problem if you wish to give all the points to brunobear and I will see if I can help you to get mine working.  Points are nice but my main objection here is to help others and learn lots from these posts.

Bubs

 

by: brunobearPosted on 2005-02-23 at 12:53:02ID: 13386913

Bubs no worries I don't mind a split at all.  :-)  25 a piece!  

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