Help with a text API

So I was writing an API for a OS I was making. Though every time I call a function from it, it clears the screen like I hoped and then says window:48: Expected number.
Here is my code:

function clearWhite()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.white")
end
function clearOrange()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.orange")
end
function clearMagenta()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.magenta")
end
function clearLightBlue()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.lightBlue")
end
function clearYellow()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.yellow")
end
function clearLime()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.lime")
end
function clearPink()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.pink")
end
function clearGray()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.gray")
end
function clearLightGray()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.lightGray")
end
function clearCyan()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.cyan")
end
function clearPurple()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.purple")
end
function clearBlue()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.blue")
end
function clearBrown()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.brown")
end
function clearGreen()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.green")
end
function clearRed()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.red")
end
function clearBlack()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor("colors.black")
end

Thanks in advance.

Your problems are the term.setTextColor()s'.
You're calling it with a string ("colors.black" for example), but it needs a number to set the value to.
Just leave out the quotation marks, so that it looks like this:

function clearRed()
  term.clear()
  term.setTextColor(colors.red)
end

That, because colors references to the colors API (which is a table). So with the code above you are calling the color variable red in the colors table.

thank you it works now

It would really simple to have this as a function:

function colorClear( color )
   term.clear()
   term.setTextColor( color )
end

That way you don't have to have a separate function for each color.

account.username, on 31 May 2014 - 09:17 PM said:

It would really simple to have this as a function:

function colorClear( color )
   term.clear()
   term.setTextColor( color )
end

That way you don't have to have a separate function for each color.

I was trying to make it more simple for people. I still use this API to this day in almost all my projects that use GUIs. In fact I recently used it in a project . I should clean it up though.