Color bug / Hexadecimal format for color variables

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1.
Dear MT team,
I think there is a color bug in MT 4.0. Try this script. A wide rage of colors 0xXXYYZZ are interpreted as 0xZZYYXX. Is this a bug?
If yes, please could you fix it? Thanks in advance.
I use MT 4.0 211, ME 4.0 209.

int start(){
  ObjectsDeleteAll();
  string NameOB="id1";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[20],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0x008000);//same result using 0x00008000
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Green",20);
  NameOB="id2";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[60],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0x00C1FF);//same result using 0x0000C1FF
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Ocean",20);
  NameOB="id3";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[100],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFFC100);//same result using 0x00FFC100
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Yellow",20);
  return(0);
}


2.
This page
https://docs.mql4.com/basis/types/color
explaines to use hexadecimal format "0x00BBGGRR" for color variables
and shows an example like: 0x008000 // green

And this page:
https://docs.mql4.com/constants/special
shows an example like: CLR_NONE 0xFFFFFFFF (different of formats 0x00BBGGRR and 0xBBGGRR)

????

So, what is the right hexadecimal format for color variable: 0x00BBGGRR or 0xBBGGRR ?

Thanks and regards.

 
Hi Budhax,

To answer your question "So, what is the right hexadecimal format for color variable: 0x00BBGGRR or 0xBBGGRR ?" - Both of these hex formats are correct because the leading zeros are irrelevant.
Note that the position of the hex color digits "0xBBGGRR" will always be the reverse order of the RGB color that you see in the object properties window (RRR,GGG,BBB).

Here's your example, rewritten to only use significant hex digits. Put more zeros directly after the "0x" in the hex number, if you like - the result will be the same.

int start(){
  ObjectsDeleteAll();
  string NameOB="id1";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[20],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFF);      // Integer 255,      RGB(255,0,0)
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Red",20);
  NameOB="id2";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[40],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFFFF);    // Integer 65535,    RGB(255,255,0)
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Yellow",20);
  NameOB="id3";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[60],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFF00);    // Integer 65280,    RGB(0,255,0)
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Lime",20);
  NameOB="id4";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[80],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFFFF00);  // Integer 16776960, RGB(0,255,255)
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Aqua",20);
  NameOB="id5";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[100],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFF0000);  // Integer 16711680, RGB(0,0,255)
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Blue",20);
  NameOB="id6";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[120],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFF00FF);  // Integer 16711935, RGB(255,0,255)
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"Magenta",20);
  NameOB="id7";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[140],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFFFFFF);  // Integer 16777215, RGB(255,255,255)
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"White",20);
  NameOB="id8";
  ObjectCreate(NameOB,OBJ_TEXT,0,Time[160],Close[1]);
  ObjectSet(NameOB,OBJPROP_COLOR,0xFFFFFFFF); // (Color = "None")
  ObjectSetText(NameOB,"None",20);
 
  return(0);
}
Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Raider
 

Thanks Raider,
Now it's clear in my mind. I was confused because my tool "Visual Color Picker" ( http://www.linxexplorer.com/colorpicker.html ) or HTML convention ( http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp ) use the format RRGGBB (red, green, blue). but MQ4 use BBGGRR (blue, green, red). Be carefull web developers.

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