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Can a custom function return a color?

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[2017-02-03 23:04:32]
reticent67 - Posts: 4
I'm coding a trading strategy based on several custom studies. I want to evaluate the studies and based on certain conditions, plot a subgraph for my strategy. It would be easier to make a helper function return a color that can directly be assigned to the subgraph rather than have my helper function return an integer and use a switch to color the subgraph. Is this possible in SC?

Example:
subgraph[1].DataColor[sc.Index] = calcCustomStudy(params)

[2017-02-04 01:30:16]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Yes. Because a color value which is a COLORREF type is nothing more than a 4 byte unsigned integer.

Use the Windows RGB(R,G,B) macro to create this value.
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