SAP ABAP Data Element VBI_COLOR (Color description)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_UI (Software Component) User Interface Technology
   ⤷ CA-UI2-VBZ (Application Component) Visual Business -> please use CA-GTF-VBZ
     ⤷ VBI_CORE (Package) Visual Business Core Objects

Basic Data

Data Element	VBI_COLOR
Short Description	Color description

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type		Direct Type Entry
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	21
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	21
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Color
Medium	15	Color
Long	20	Color
Heading	50	Color description

Documentation

Definition

Color value description in one of the supported color models RGB (Red, Green, Blue), RGBA (Red, Green, Blue, Alpha), HLS (Hue, Lumination, Saturation), or HLSA (Hue, Lumination, Saturation, Alpha).

Use

Using the RGB(A) model you can set a value for each color component and the alpha channel between 0 to 255.

Using the HLS(A) model you can set a value between 0 and 600 for Hue, Lumination, and Saturation. The Hue value can be calculated from the hue value in degree by using the formula hue/360*600. Lumination and saturation have their max. intensity at a value of 300. Lower value fade to black and higher value to white.

Dependencies

Example

White: RGB(255,255,255)
Red: RGB(255,0,0), with 50% transparency: RGBA(255,0,0,128)
Black: RGB(0,0,0)

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20140802
SAP Release Created in	100