Window Background Color

[Vermiculus]

Is there any rhyme or reason to the window background color (hbrBackground) color assignments? is there a chart somewhere with all these colors? Just wondering, really - I'm pretty new to the Windows API... :)

[ckweius]

The OS maintains a system palette for each device which contains the color values for all colors that can be displayed by the device.

You can view the contents of the system palette by using the GetSystemPaletteEntries function.

Kevin Choong

[Marc G]

You can use GetSysColor (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724371(VS.85).aspx) to retrieve all kinds of colors used by the system, for example for menu text, window background, button face, ...

[Vermiculus]

Thank you!

[Vermiculus]

On second thought, is there any way to actually define RGB values for the color, like in HTML?

[_Superman_]

You can use the RGB macro to define such a color.