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DLL Talk / Retreiving windows colours?

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dark coder
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Posted: 24th Oct 2004 05:43 Edited at: 24th Oct 2004 05:44
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is theres a dll out there, that can retrieve the colour scheme colours, like an active windows bg colour, if this doesnt make any sence ill take a pic.




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IanG
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Posted: 24th Oct 2004 05:49
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blue gui maybe - not sure though

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dark coder
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Posted: 24th Oct 2004 06:11
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but that costs money and all i want is to retrieve one rgb value, not a good trade imo :p


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Posted: 24th Oct 2004 08:47
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You can use the function GetSysColor (user32.dll)

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dark coder
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Posted: 24th Oct 2004 09:23 Edited at: 24th Oct 2004 09:55
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thanks for the help,

ok 1 last problem



the colour value returned is some big number, but how do i get it to translate into a colour value dbp understands?


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Posted: 24th Oct 2004 09:51 Edited at: 24th Oct 2004 09:53
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You can find a constant list of possible indices here:
Edit: I mean here:
http://www.ilook.fsnet.co.uk/vb/vbsyscol.htm

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dark coder
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Posted: 24th Oct 2004 10:02
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ok i looked at it, and i dont get it

1st it makes no senc
2nd i dont know c, or whichever language thats in


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Hello,
Here is a color tool I made (its free) that give you a nice (R,G,B) string of any color just for this purpose. Check it out.

http://www.griffithdatasystems.com/products/color2text.htm

P.S. Does VB and HTML as well
Enjoy:
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dark coder
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i know howto get a colour for say my pc, as i can just use a colour grabber in psp, but that takes time, and using a 3rd party app takes even more time,

all im really after is to somehow convert this 15 off character long return value into a usable rgb format, on the microsoft site it says it returns an rgb results, but it doesnt look that way at all.

anywho thanks for your help griffirr


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Posted: 25th Oct 2004 02:08 Edited at: 25th Oct 2004 02:14
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This gets the colour of the desktop



You need to swap the order around as windows uses orders the colours in rgb while directx uses bgr.

Some values to pass to the GetSysColor function



the default IDE sucks
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Posted: 25th Oct 2004 06:40
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oo i get it now, thanks a mil


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