topic Symbolize layer color using RGB values in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/symbolize-layer-color-using-rgb-values/m-p/47649#M3798 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am looking to symbolize the color fill of a polygon feature class / shp using the RGB values (e.g. 54,54,234,0) in the attribute table.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I was surprised not to find this functionality in ArcGIS 10x by default.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>So has anyone done this using python? Would I have to create a lyr file to make the colors stick? Would a style work? Other ideas?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:56:57 GMT SimonWillis 2012-11-02T04:56:57Z Symbolize layer color using RGB values https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/symbolize-layer-color-using-rgb-values/m-p/47649#M3798 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am looking to symbolize the color fill of a polygon feature class / shp using the RGB values (e.g. 54,54,234,0) in the attribute table.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I was surprised not to find this functionality in ArcGIS 10x by default.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>So has anyone done this using python? Would I have to create a lyr file to make the colors stick? Would a style work? Other ideas?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:56:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/symbolize-layer-color-using-rgb-values/m-p/47649#M3798 SimonWillis 2012-11-02T04:56:57Z Re: Symbolize layer color using RGB values https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/symbolize-layer-color-using-rgb-values/m-p/47650#M3799 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You cannot change a symbol's color using RGB values at 10.1 or 10.0 using python.&nbsp; What you could do is write a C/C++ function that calls ArcObject COM library and then use python's ctype module to call you DLL.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Andrew</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:19:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/symbolize-layer-color-using-rgb-values/m-p/47650#M3799 AndrewChapkowski 2012-11-02T10:19:22Z