Orange in Windows isn't very orange

[Tim Roberts]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:21:39 -0800, Chris Carlen <crobc at sbcglobal.net> 
wrote:

>
> >>> wx.NamedColour("Orange")
> wx.Colour(204, 50, 50, 255)
>
> Yeah right, like that's orange?
>
> In Linux:
>
> wx.NamedColor("Orange")
> wx.Colour(255, 165, 0, 255)
>
> That's better.

Nah, that's "butternut".  Orange is more like (255, 104, 0).


> What's with "Orange" in Windoze?

Dunno, but it's coming from the wxWidgets C++ code.  Windows doesn't 
have any concept of a named color database.  For a happier experience on 
Windows, try this before using named colors:

    from wx.lib import colourdb
    ...
    colourdb.updateColorDB()

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