New version: Uploaded on 20 Jan 10 I wrote this in response to a forum question and thought it might be useful more widely as I have seen a few posts about average colour values before. The function returns the average colour value (in hex RGB format) over a selected area of the display. The user can define the area and also the resolution of the averaging. Obviously the resolution determines the accuracy of the result and the speed of the operation. As an example, I got the following value