Themes

[Merlin]

Hi,

I've posted similiar before, but just can't find the answer, so here goes
again:-

Under XP themes, edit boxes and the like change their border colour to match
the theme, e.g. standard XP theme is a Blue colour, so edit boxes have a
blue border. How (an example please, please!) do I find this colour. I've
found many abstracts on applying themes but they all tend to be some C++
code that calls functions that override the painting with themed elements -
whereas I want to know the colours through code. I don't want to go down the
road of analysing existing pixel element colours on the screen to find what
other controls changed to.

Thanks,
Merlin

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Take a look at the systemcolors,systempen,and systembrushes classes.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../frlrfSystemDrawingSystemColorsClassTopic.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ml/frlrfsystemdrawingsystempensclasstopic.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...frlrfsystemdrawingsystembrushesclasstopic.asp
Ken

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Merlin,

Under XP themes, edit boxes and the like change their border colour to match
the theme, e.g. standard XP theme is a Blue colour, so edit boxes have a
blue border. How (an example please, please!) do I find this colour. I've
found many abstracts on applying themes but they all tend to be some C++
code that calls functions that override the painting with themed elements -
whereas I want to know the colours through code. I don't want to go down the
road of analysing existing pixel element colours on the screen to find what
other controls changed to.

Maybe you can base your implementation on this sample:

<http://www.google.de/[email protected]>

 

[Merlin]

Thanks Ken & Hertfried,

Hertfried the link you provided looks very promising - many thanks.

Regards,
Merlin

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Thanks Ken & Hertfried,

Hertfried the link you provided looks very promising - many thanks.

BTW: My name is "Herfried" (without any "t").

 

[Merlin]

Whoops,

Sorry Herfried.

Mertlin

BTW: My name is "Herfried" (without any "t").

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[CJ Taylor]

BTW: My name is "Herfried" (without any "t").

You are such an a$$ =)

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

CJ,

You are such an a$$ =)

LOL!