I read:
But as you can see in the example patch (attached) I need to convert the hex color values to RGB values. Now I was wondering if there is any object in some external which would do the job (conversion)?! Any hint would be more than welcome.
well tcl could do it, see -> http://wiki.tcl.tk/1067 , in python it' would be just int ('0xff', 16) so pyext might come in handy.
HTH
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