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term.setBackgroundColor is not work.

Started by raxteeze, 12 June 2015 - 05:26 PM

raxteeze #1

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Posted 12 June 2015 - 07:26 PM

The code is not working.
Error: window:57: Expected number


local cfg = fs.open('dconfig.db', 'r')
bcolor = cfg.readLine(1)
term.setBackgroundColor(bcolor)

file dconfig.db written "256"

Cranium #2

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Posted 12 June 2015 - 07:45 PM

bcolor = tonumber(cfg.readLine(1))

You forgot to turn the result from a string to a number.

raxteeze #3

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Posted 12 June 2015 - 07:54 PM

Cranium, on 12 June 2015 - 07:45 PM said:
bcolor = tonumber(cfg.readLine(1))
You forgot to turn the result from a string to a number.

Thank you!