Date parsed: 29/03/2008 14:42:29
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:42:29 +0100

Nicolas Pavlidis schreef:
> Jos Roijakkers wrote:
>> I am having trouble in retrieving color values. I am using VB.Net 2005
>> and this is what I want to achieve:
>>
>> I want to retrieve the color value of a control that is located on a
>> Windows form (NOT a Web applicaion).
>> E.g. if the color is yellow I need the value &HFF to be returned to a
>> variable.
>
> Maybe this way:
>
> Color col = Color.Yellow;
> col.ToArgb();
>
> Color.ToArgb returns an int containing all four bytes of a ARGB colorvalue.
>
> If you really need the single values a bit of bitshfiting whould be
> necessary to extract the three least significant bytes out from the int.
> The most significant byte shoud be the alpha - blend (the A in ARGB :-) ).
>
> If you only wanna disply the ARGB - Vlue a simple formater should exist
> somewhere in .NET :-)
>
> HTH && Kind regards,
> Nicolas

Thanks Nicolas, that put me into the right direction.

Jos