Limit to range of colors displayed by Label control?

[Evan Stone]

Hi,

I was just curious to know if there was a limit to the range of colors a
label control can display. For instance if I set a label control's ForeColor
to 28, 23, 15 it renders black (on my system, at least - but I'm running an
nVIDIA GeForce 440 MX 64MB card running in 32-bit color, which should be
plenty able to render that properly).

Anyway, it occurred to me that perhaps the label had a restricted color
range, and if this is the case, which other controls might this restriction
apply to?

thanks!

evan k. stone | software engineer

 

[GhostInAK]

Hello Evan,

There is no restriction here. You simply chose a color that is indistinguishable
from black to the normal human eye.
RGB(28, 23, 15) = HTML Color: #1C170F. Try that in yer fav web browser..
it'll still look black.
You need to raise the brightness level.

-Boo

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

First of all it's not nice to crosspost to so many NGs , it's better to post
to just one.

There is no restriction at all. Post some code in case you do not solve your
problem
Also is this a web or a win app?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I was just curious to know if there was a limit to the range of colors a
label control can display. For instance if I set a label control's
ForeColor to 28, 23, 15 it renders black (on my system, at least - but I'm
running an nVIDIA GeForce 440 MX 64MB card running in 32-bit color, which
should be plenty able to render that properly).

I am wondering how you determine that the text is rendered in black...