Integer Values for system.drawing.colors?

[dynamic_sysop]

Hi could someone tell me if its possible to convert a system.drawing.color ( or just color ) to a numerical value ( integer ) eg: system.drawing.color.blue to its 00100000 value
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^^^ this picture probably wont show because its using geocities, this is a link that opens it in a new window usually ( showing an example of what im trying to acheive )
status bar coloured through .net you have to right click this *** and open in new window.

 

[Divil]

You can use the ToArgb() method of the Color class.

 

[dynamic_sysop]

thanks Divil that returns a numeric value with a - like -1956007 etc... when i use

MsgBox(Color.Blue.ToArgb)Numeric for colour returned in a MessageBox

, altho if i use that value to colour my statusbar it gives a different colour lol, but hey nevermind atleast it does something.

 

[Nerseus]

You should be using FromArgb(...) when setting the color of your status bar.

Are you converting to a number because youre storing something in the registry, a file, or someplace else? Otherwise you can set the color property on a control to another controls property...

Either way, you should have the exact same color. The ARGB format contains everything there is to know about a color. One value used on multiple controls should not be any different. If used on separate machines, there might be a difference (for any number of reasons).

-ner

 

[dynamic_sysop]

there isnt a colour property for a statusbar, i can colour it with an integer in the following way...

 Private Const SB_SETBKCOLOR As Integer = 8193this is the numeric value for setting the colour of the statusbar
Private Const SETCOLOR As Integer = 3776961This is the actuall colour you are setting the statusbar to, the number being the colour ( eg:3776961 would return a mustard colour )

i use that in combination with the SendMessage function.
however if you send a colour value as colour.red etc or system.drawing.color.red , it wont work because it needs to be a numerical value for some reason.

 

[Nerseus]

Youll have to tweak it slightly. The .NET colors are in the format AARRGGBB, the ones that the SETCOLOR message wants is in the format 00BBGGRR. Use this format:

// The first param, 0, is the alpha - needs to be 0 for SETCOLOR messages
Color.FromArgb(0, Color.Red.B, Color.Red.G, Color.Red.R).ToArgb()

From the FromArgb method, you can see what youd need to do to get a color converted from one format to another...

-Nerseus