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Craig - 29 Jan 2008 01:14 GMT

I am trying to find the border color for a group box so I can create
some additional lines within the group box that match it. I can't find
any reference that says which system color it maps to. I have tried a
few different colors but some match on XP but not in Vista so if I can
find the system color reference that would help a lot.

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Kevin Spencer - 29 Jan 2008 12:45 GMT

Because a Control's colors may be any colors, highlights and shadows must be
relative to the color of the Control. There is a class you can use to get
these colors: System.Windows.Forms.ControlPaint. See the following
reference:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.controlpaint.aspx

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>I am trying to find the border color for a group box so I can create
> some additional lines within the group box that match it. I can't find
> any reference that says which system color it maps to. I have tried a
> few different colors but some match on XP but not in Vista so if I can
> find the system color reference that would help a lot.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 29 Jan 2008 13:04 GMT

"Kevin Spencer" <unclechutney@localhost> schrieb:

> Because a Control's colors may be any colors, highlights and shadows must
> be relative to the color of the Control. There is a class you can use to
> get these colors: System.Windows.Forms.ControlPaint. See the following
> reference:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.controlpaint.aspx

But this won't return the correct colors if the application has visual
styles enabled.

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