term.setTextColor()

Hey guys, i have a problem with this

term.setTextColor("colors.blue")

the reason why i have written "colors.blue" in Quotes, is that i have loaded the text from a config file.

The error code looks like this:

So have anyone got any fix for this? (Other than using numbers instead of colors.XXX)

Just save the actual color in the file, not 'colors.<color>'
Like this:

blue

Then you'd access it like this:

colorString = "blue"
term.setTextColor( colors[ colorString ] )

(Obviously this isn't loading a file, I'm assuming you can get the string from the file into a variable)


EDIT: Oops, should have been 'colors', not 'color'

So you mean i should make a table with all the colors? e.g.

local color = {["blue"] = 2048}    --2048 = colors.blue
local a = "blue"
term.setTextColor(color[a])

or what do you mean? i have the color in a variable. Could you show a bit of code, for an example?
Thanks

There already is a table with all the colors, that's one of the things in the colors API (which is a table). So you'd just save the text "blue" in the file, then use that to index into the colors API.

Oh yea, i forgot :)/> ty