Setting app colors in OnStart

[BenDonahue]

The Set-Up

In attempting to create a standard color palette based on out branding colors, I attempted to set these color values to variables in OnStart, so as to have easy access to them throughout the application.

App->OnStart, I added this code:

Set(_LightestYellow, ColorValue("#ffce6e"));

After running OnStart, I then tried to use this in a Fill for a label, like so:

Which filled my label with black, thusly:

Checking my variables, I see that _LightestYellow is defined as a color, but has no value:

Setting the Fill value for the label to the what the variable was supposed to be defined as ,

ColorValue("#ffce6e")

, fills the label with yellow:

The Goal

I would like to have a standard block of code that I add to every app so that I can access the branding colors easily

The Question

What (probably super simple) thing am I missing that is preventing me from successfully defining a variable as a ColorValue()?

[KrishnaV · Accepted solution]

@BenDonahue ,

Try this,
on OnStart give only the HEX value as

Set(_LightestYellow, "#ffce6e");

 on the label fill property you say as:

ColorValue(_LightestYellow)

 This will work

[BenDonahue]

@KrishnaV ,

Yup, that did it. Thank you for you assistance, Krishna.

-Ben

[KrishnaV]

great and happy to know. Remember when you assign the Color("djdjdj") to a variable on OnStart and then you try to use for Fill .. the variable behaves like a boolean variable and it return true or false 🙂

[BenDonahue]

Would you go into a bit more detail on that, please?
Are you talking about this kind of code put into OnStart:
Set(_LightestBlue, ColorValue("#08c5fb"));   ?

Under what condition would it return true and under what condition would it return false?

I tried plugging

_LightestBlue

into the text field, and the error came that it was expecting a text value. Also, in the variables, it sad that _LightestBlue has no value.