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Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog

From	"DaveO" <djo@dial.pipex.com>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion, comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog
Date	2012-10-09 11:57 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<k50vv9$8pr$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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>"-mhd" <not_real@invalid.com> wrote in message 
>news:vk1678de7er1issddh1c0ut44f9nr9t5u9@4ax.com...
>I'm now rolling my own font dialog and want to  match the list of 16 colors 
>used
>by the color dropbox in the MS font common dialog.

>The color names in the MS version do not match the 16 QBCcolors so where 
>can I
>get the long rgb values of these colors? I sure would like to find a 
>reference
>(I Googled) but I am coming up short.

>-mike

Am I right to assume you intend to provide a combo box with the names of the 
colours?
Not the best interface as the names are a bit arbitary, far better to have a 
combo box with bars of each colour so they can be chosen directly. The 
combobox does not provide that functionality out-of-the-box but it's not too 
tricky to manage (or so I'm led to understand, I've seen it but I've not 
actually tried it myself). Googling of "vb6 colour picker" only returned 
23,900 results but I'm sure one or two of them will do exactly what you 
need.

Regards
DaveO

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Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-08 13:12 -0400
  Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.spam> - 2012-10-08 14:07 -0400
    Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-08 16:47 -0400
      Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-10-08 17:20 -0400
        Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-08 19:29 -0400
        Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-08 20:14 -0400
          Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-10-09 06:21 +0200
            Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "Norm Cook" <normcook@cableone.net> - 2012-10-09 07:08 -0500
              Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-10-09 16:05 +0200
                Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-10-09 10:28 -0400
            Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "CoderX" <coder@x.com> - 2012-10-09 16:38 -0400
            Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog Ulrich Korndoerfer <ulrich_wants_nospam@prosource.de> - 2012-10-09 23:05 +0200
      Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-10-08 22:42 +0100
        Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-10-08 22:49 +0100
          Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-08 20:15 -0400
      Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2012-10-09 09:30 +0100
      Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.spam> - 2012-10-09 13:52 -0400
  Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "DaveO" <djo@dial.pipex.com> - 2012-10-09 11:57 +0100
    Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "DaveO" <djo@dial.pipex.com> - 2012-10-09 15:21 +0100
      Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-09 13:10 -0400
    Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-09 12:58 -0400
      Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-09 15:14 -0400
        Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-10-09 17:33 -0400
          Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2012-10-09 17:49 -0400
  Re: Color names in color picker used in font common dialog Stan Weiss <srweiss@erols.com> - 2012-10-09 13:09 -0400

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