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     PWB maintains an table of colors. Each color in the table has the
     following:
 
     Item            Description
 
     Index number    The number by which you can access the color
                     directly in extensions. A color index can be one of
                     the predefined color constants defined in EXT.H, or
                     it can be the index of a new color returned by
                     AddAColor.
                     See: AddAColor, ◄Color Constants►
 
     Name            The switch name by which you can assign the color
                     from PWB (with macros, TOOLS.INI, or PWB switches).
 
     Value           The color specification associated with the table
                     entry. The value uses the standard MS-DOS color
                     scheme (one byte with the foreground color in the
                     low four bits and the background color in the high
                     four bits).
                     See: ◄PWB Color Values►
 
     You can use color indexes to assign a color to a block of text.
     See: GetColor, PutColor, SetColor, SetHiLite
 
     To set the value for a newly created color entry, use
     SetEditorObject:
 
          SetEditorObject( RQ_COLOR | myindex, 0, &myvalue );
 
     To set it indirectly, use fExecute:
 
          fExecute( "arg \"color:mycolor 18\" assign" );
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