Defined an RGBA in an .inc file, now anything red is black.

[acelaya35]

I'm new to Rainmeter, i'm putting the finishing touches on my first skin and then all of the sudden the color is all wrong.

I have one color value that's defined as rrr,ggg,bbb,aaa in an .inc file under @Resources but for whatever reason, if I have any value in the red portion, then red is 100% black. It's weird. If I throw in some green like say 50,100,0,255 then I get super dark forest green.

I don't know how I got here and I don't know how to fix it. I hope someone else has been here and knows how to fix it. I've attached the .rmskin, if anyone can take a look I will be forever grateful.

[acelaya35]

Putting the color values in my .inc file in quotes fixed the issue

[mak_kawa]

I think the actual cause is possibly an extra invisible unicode character (x000e) between "=" and "245" of the MainColor variable description in the UTF-16 include file.

Sorry, if it is my misunderstanding.

[Brian]

I agree with mak_kawa, although it looks like character: 0E 20.

Forum.Invisible.Char.1.png

-Brian

[mak_kawa]

Hi Brian

I was a bit shifted...one byte. "x0e20" is a Thai character??

[Brian]

I forgot about endianness. It's 20 0E or the "Left To Right" mark. It's a 0-width character.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200e/index.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

-Brian

[mak_kawa]

Realm of the Unicode is so deep for me...

[Yincognito]

Realm of the Unicode is so deep for me...

Not at all complicated though, at least not for me. And very useful, especially when you are short of ways to manipulate strings to achieve a needed objective.

[acelaya35]

Holy crap, I would have never found that. You guys are amazing. Thank you!

[mak_kawa]

Hi Yincognito

Yes, you are right. Because it is so deep, it is worth exploring.
But honestly, I am just a noob/hobbyist for Rainmter, so I don't have a skill to enjoy it, yet.

Yesterday I have learned that "Little-endian Unicode character should be read inversely in the binary dump" thanks to Brian. "3D 00 0E 20 32 00" is "003D"(=), "200E"(Left-to-Right) and "0032"(2). It is interesting and useful, at least for me.