defining colors...

[sakurakira]

I was looking in an addon to define bar colors (mainly for the default UI), and I was quite confused about the different numbers. In the same line of code, there are two different number types used. Is this developer error, him taking a shortcut (ie laziness), and can I redo all of the numbers to the same format?

Here is a sample...

PowerBarColor["MANA"] = { r = 0/255, g = 0.6, b = 1 }   -- r = 0/255, g = 150/255, b = 1900/255
PowerBarColor["ENERGY"] = { r = 1, g = 1, b = 35/255 }

I understand #/255. Looking at colors in Photoshop or MS Paint explains those. I do not however, understand the decimal number.

[Starinnia]

The decimal is the same as the fraction, but without the CPU time spent calculating it.

so .6 is 153/255

If you put 153/255 in the code though, the computer must calculate the value of that fraction. Putting .6 eliminates that calculation