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# Using Colors and Tips

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From this point on, I assume you've grasped the basics. That's why the documentation will be more fast paced from here on.
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## The Color Picker

Suppose you want to set a color for some text in tkinter:\
`tk.Label(foreground="red")`

You'd think you're limited to colors in words, such as red, green, blue. But no, most Python applications support colors as HEX too, meaning you can use any color you like!

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HEX colors are in the format #RRGGBB. The RGB color system defines a unique color based off how much red, green, and blue (the 3 primary colors) is present. The amount of each color present is given in a number from 1 - 255. HEX colors represent this decimal number in hex format, allocation two characters for each of the 3 colors. The hash (#) at the start indicates that the values are HEX.
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Line up your caret (the text cursor) with where you want the color to be inserted. Then press the color button:

<figure><img src="/files/ZxR9d7sUMylBQFG7VT1R" alt=""><figcaption><p>The color button</p></figcaption></figure>

Upon clicking it, the color choosing window pops up:

<figure><img src="https://www.plus2net.com/python/images/ttk-bootstrap-ColorChooserDialog.jpg" alt="" width="188"><figcaption><p>The color choosing window, based off ttkbootstrap.colorchooserdialog</p></figcaption></figure>

Select your color and click OK. the color will be inserted to wherever your caret was in HEX format.

## Random Tip

This feature plays no actual weight in your programming experience.\
Click this button:

<figure><img src="/files/18UVdpo6MpfSzZIL84RA" alt=""><figcaption><p>Tip button</p></figcaption></figure>

A random tip appears!

<figure><img src="/files/yIkUU9DHJsVbyfu0t50k" alt=""><figcaption><p>I wonder if you knew that</p></figcaption></figure>

Might be used for inspiration, or actual benefit to your coding experience.

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Currently there are 33 tips in V 1.0 hard coded into the app, and a random one is given each time. I plan to add more tips with each update.
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