(+ (* 65536 r) (* 256 g) b))
d'oh
I was stuck on thinking I'd use strings, concatenate them, and convert it to a real or something... I'm ... clueless and awkward.
thank you so much! I was thinking it wasn't an addition, for some reason, but a concatenation of RGB... I misunderstood what a 24bit number really means, I guess.
and I'm using plain notepad
I got more comfortable using the VLIDE, but for some reason just didn't... this time... though I use Notepad++ for other things, too, and have used it for lisp before.