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stageColor

Syntax

    the stageColor

Description

System property; determines the color of the movie background for index color only.

Use `bgColor` for more accurate, reliable, and flexible stage color specification with RGB values.

The value of the `stageColor` property ranges from 0 to 255 for 8-bit index color, and from 0 to 15 for 4-bit color. You can click a color in the color palette to see that color's index number in the lower left corner of the window. Setting the `stageColor` property in a Lingo script is equivalent to choosing the Stage color from the pop-up palette in the panel window.

Note: For compatibility when playing back as a Java applet, use the bgColor property to define the color as an RGB value.

Example

This statement sets the variable `oldColor` to the index number of the current Stage color:

    oldColor = the stageColor

Example

This statement sets the Stage color to the color assigned to chip 249 on the current palette:

    the stageColor = 249

See also

`backColor`, `bgColor`, `foreColor, color()`