Hello everyone I am just learning the ropes of kotlin and compose so I'm not sure where this questio...

# compose

[B Norr]

Hello everyone I am just learning the ropes of kotlin and compose so I'm not sure where this question fits in but I have a mutableState<long> parameter that I want to use as a color-indicator, but when I do "Color(exampleClass.longVar.value)", it does not give me a a working color. Any ideas on why this is happening?

[romainguy]

What did you put in that Long exactly?

[romainguy]

The format of “color longs” is described here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Color.html#color-longs

[B Norr]

I got all of my values using the palette on the margin when using Color, so one of my values is 0xFFE41D1D

[romainguy]

that’s a “color int”

[romainguy]

you need to add .toInt() at the end

[romainguy]

(because of how Kotlin handles hex constants unfortunately)

[romainguy]

(if the alpha is >0x80, it’s treated as a long instead of an int)

[B Norr]

Got it. thank you!