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1. Web Safe Colors

A web safe colour is one that will display correctly on any screen, irrespective of the operating system or graphics card. There are only 216 web safe colours. You can use other colours, but you cannot be sure they will display correctly.

A general rule of thumb is: if possible use a web safe colours. If isn”t possible don”t worry. As time goes by the graphics cards (which controls the screen colours) are getting better and better and using web safe colours is not as critical as it once was.

In Flash, when you select an object on the stage, you can either Hexadecimal or the RGB colour code. In ActionScript you use the hexadecimal number not the RGB number.

Note: in ActionScript you can also use a Bitwise colour system which converts numbers to Binary, but this is beyond the scope of this tutorial.

The visible colour is the same irrespective of which you use: RGB, Hexadecimal or Bitwise.