# CLOSED How to get current colorMode
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/closed-how-to-get-current-colormode/12812
**Category:** p5.js
**Created:** [July 19, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/closed-how-to-get-current-colormode/12812 "2019-07-19T10:02:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@monotone](https://discourse.processing.org/u/monotone)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/closed-how-to-get-current-colormode/12812/1 "2019-07-19T10:02:26Z")
Hi,
I try to get the current colorMode to adapt my code behaviour.
But I didn’t found anyway to get it ?
I try colorMode() without params but nedd at list one.
Any idea ?
Thanks & regards,
Constant
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/closed-how-to-get-current-colormode/12812/2 "2019-07-19T10:06:00Z")
Can’t you set your own variable when you set your colormode?
Then your program can read this
eg boolean modeColor
or int colorModeIs = 3;
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### Author:  [@monotone](https://discourse.processing.org/u/monotone)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/closed-how-to-get-current-colormode/12812/3 "2019-07-19T10:09:52Z")
Sure it’s a way to do, but first I wanted to make sur that it was not already by the framework.
Meanwhile I look at p5.Color source code and see that each color hold a mode attribute which is set to either constants.HSB/HSL/RGB.
So far, I can use that mode.
Thank’s
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### Author:  [@monotone](https://discourse.processing.org/u/monotone)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/closed-how-to-get-current-colormode/12812/4 "2019-07-19T11:22:06Z")
constants.RGB.HSL/RGB is not available in global scope, so I’ll my own variable 🙂
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### Author:  [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/closed-how-to-get-current-colormode/12812/5 "2019-07-20T16:50:44Z")
I _believe_ this is true for p5.js because it was true in the original Processing(Java) API.
Currently, Java mode Processing has a generic way of doing style state checking, but it isn’t documented in the reference – the recommended way is to keep track of the settings before you set them. However, there is an alternative. getStyle() may be called on the g object (the canvas PGraphics) – this returns a PStyle object
[https://processing.github.io/processing-javadocs/core/processing/core/PStyle.html](https://processing.github.io/processing-javadocs/core/processing/core/PStyle.html)
which has a colorMode which can be checked (and imageMode, strokeColor, textSize, tint, et cetera)
```auto
PStyle ps = g.getStyle();
println(ps);
println(ps.colorMode);
colorMode(HSB);
ps = g.getStyle();
println(ps.colorMode);
```
I’m not sure if p5.js has a similar system – if it does I’m not aware of it.
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### Author:  [@monotone](https://discourse.processing.org/u/monotone)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/closed-how-to-get-current-colormode/12812/6 "2019-07-23T15:13:48Z")
Hi,
I don’t find the equivalent in p5js.
Thank’s for the suggestion.
Regards.