On 05/13/2011 04:07 PM, Jim Holsenback wrote:
> On 05/13/2011 03:08 PM, SGeier wrote:
>> Low priority and not really a "bug", but there's a couple error/warning
>> messages floating around that aren't really useful (and/or possibly
>> misleading). I don't think they warrant a bug report, but I'm not sure
>> where
>> I would report them so that someone can think about them.
>>
>> The one that triggered this post (and has been around for a metric
>> forever[*]) is this one:
>> Parse Warning: Suspicious expression after rgb.
>>
>> which I get whenever I do something like this:
>>
>> color rgb CHSV2RGB(<n*2,.85,.7>)
>>
>> Now CHSV2RGB isn't a built-in (it's in colors.inc) - but does that alone
>> make it "suspicious"? And of course I use it mostly when I have something
>> algorithmic (place a lot of objects in a circle, say, and color them by
>> angle). So this error message tends to arise in large quantities, that
>> can
>> obscure other (legitimate) warnings.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ([*] a metric forever is about 20% longer than an imperial forever)
>>
>>
> from colors.inc:
> // Converts a color in HSL color space to a color in RGB color space.
> // Input: < Hue, Saturation, Lightness, Filter, Transmit >
> // Output: < Red, Green, Blue, Filter, Transmit >
>
> I'd suspect that since it's output has a transmit value specifying rgb

oops ... meant to say transmit/filter value

> is the problem ... try:
>
> color rgbft CHSV2RGB(<n*2,.85,.7>)

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