Group box border color

[Craig]

I am trying to find the border color for a group box so I can create
some additional lines within the group box that match it. I can't find
any reference that says which system color it maps to. I have tried a
few different colors but some match on XP but not in Vista so if I can
find the system color reference that would help a lot.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Because a Control's colors may be any colors, highlights and shadows must be
relative to the color of the Control. There is a class you can use to get
these colors: System.Windows.Forms.ControlPaint. See the following
reference:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.controlpaint.aspx

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Chicken Salad Surgeon
Microsoft MVP

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Because a Control's colors may be any colors, highlights and shadows must
be relative to the color of the Control. There is a class you can use to
get these colors: System.Windows.Forms.ControlPaint. See the following
reference:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.controlpaint.aspx

But this won't return the correct colors if the application has visual
styles enabled.