RGB returns only BLACK!

Who urged you to write 'as RGB color' at the end of the instruction ?

It may be required in an other world but in Numbers it's a wrongdoer !

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 1 janvier 2011 17:07:00

I guess that it would be a good idea to run this script:

--

tell application "Numbers" to tell document 1 to tell sheet 1 to tell table 1
 get background color of cell y of row x (* double check because I am accustomed to use x for the column, y for the row *)
end tell
--

With orange, on my machine it returns {65021, 39578, 0}

{255, 255, 153} isn't black but an heavy gray.

Apple use the same scheme to define colors for years. Each component may have values from 0 to 65535.
Black is : {0, 0, 0}
White is : {65535, 65535, 65535}
None is : missing value

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 1 janvier 2011 20:33:28

Apple uses RGB codes; they are not just for Windows. If you open the color chart and look at web safe colors, RGB codes are next to the color swaths. {255,255,153} = FFFF99 and is a yellowish color. You can also pick colors by RGB sliders. {255,255,153} is apparently also {65535,65535,39321}. It seems that the color codes you need to use in AppleScript are 257x the RGB values. This would lead you to believe that you have the ability to pick 65,536^3 = 2.8E14 different colors. Whether that is the case or not, there are unlikely to be any output devices that could handle that fineness of color differentiation.