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setDrawingColor
setDrawingColor handle gadget, DWORD lineColour, DWORD fillColour, DWORD textColour

Description:
Sets the 3 different drawing colours which a canvas gadget uses when drawing shapes using drawLine, drawRect, drawEllipse or drawText.
Set any of the parameters to 0 for the colour black.
The colours can be created using the RGB command, eg for a red outline, green fill and black text: 
setDrawingColor rgb(255,0,0),rgb(0,255,0),0


Return Value:
Parameters:
gadget Handle of a canvas gadget
lineColour The colour used to draw the borders of shapes or lines.
fillColour The colour used to do the middle fill of shapes such as rectangles and ellipses.
textColour The colour used by the drawText command to draw text in the canvas.
Remarks:
setDrawingColor is quite fast, unlike DBPro's INK command, you can change it often in a loop without affecting performance.

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Example:
(Note: You will need to include the GUI constants file for this example to work)