Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!hyper.hyper.com!bonneau
From: bonneau@hyper.hyper.com (Paul Bonneau)
Subject: Re: Standard Way to Specify Colors?
Message-ID: <1991May7.225447.8616@hyper.hyper.com>
Reply-To: bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,)
Organization: HyperCube Inc.
References: <1991May7.011322.12743@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 May 1991 22:54:47 GMT

In article <1991May7.011322.12743@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell) writes:
>
>However, is there a built-in way to do this (I'm dreading writing the code -
>which I expect won't be too bad).  For example, the "colors" option of the
>control panel lets the user specify some colors, but I cannot find any
>routines to access those colors (I have Petzold, Guide to Programming, &
>Programmer's Reference).  Let me know if you know of some routines that
>can get the RGB values of those colors...
>
If I understand correctly, you simply want the RGB values of
the system-wide colors set via the control panel?

If so, do

	int	clr;
	DWORD	rgrgb[COLOR_ENDCOLORS - COLOR_SCROLLBAR + 1];

	for (clr = COLOR_SCROLLBAR; clr <= COLOR_ENDCOLORS; clr++)
		rgrgb[clr - COLOR_SCROLLBAR] = GetSysColor(clr);

cheers - Paul Bonneau.