Re: Getting theme colours
Is this what you are looking for?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724371.aspx
Tom
"GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I asked a question about this a month ago and needed to reply for more
info, but have been on holiday, so a reply so far down the newsgroup would
probably not be noticed - hence the new thread.
I need to get a colour from the current theme so I can force part of a
dialog to be 'background grey' instead of white. I tried using the methods
OpenThemeData() & GetThemeColor(), but got nowhere - the code wouldn't
link and it all seemed a long way round to get a single colour value.
What is the easiest way to find out the current theme's 'background dialog
grey' colour (RGB value) please?
Perhaps I don't even need to go to the theme directly - is it possible to
interrogate something else in the dialog that I know is the right colour
and get its background colour?
Thanks,
GT
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