SystemColor 'Control' to 'buttonface'

[Ade]

Hello, i've noticed that some old system colors have been left out of the
current version of the .net framework, including ButtonFace,
ButtonHighlight & ButtonShadow. It seems these have been replaced by
Control, ControlLight & ControlDark.

The one i'm particularly interested in is Control which when rendered to the
browser is actually output as buttonface. I need to be able to set the color
(in the style attribute of the html) of a custom control on the server side
at runtime and want to be able to convert the system color 'Control' to
'buttonface'. I figure there must be some easy way of doing this but i'm
damned if i can find it.

Anybody, any ideas?

regards,
Ade.

[Ade]

Aha! Classic case of posting too soon.

Anyway, if anybody else is looking for the answer to this, you can use the
ColorTranslator class which has a ToHtml method, e.g.

System.Drawing.Color = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Control;

string htmlColor = ColorTranslator.ToHtml(color);

which will return 'buttonface'

:)

Ade.

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"Ade" <no********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello, i've noticed that some old system colors have been left out of the
current version of the .net framework, including ButtonFace,
ButtonHighlight & ButtonShadow. It seems these have been replaced by
Control, ControlLight & ControlDark.

The one i'm particularly interested in is Control which when rendered to the browser is actually output as buttonface. I need to be able to set the color (in the style attribute of the html) of a custom control on the server side at runtime and want to be able to convert the system color 'Control' to
'buttonface'. I figure there must be some easy way of doing this but i'm
damned if i can find it.

Anybody, any ideas?

regards,
Ade.

[bruce barker]

of cource this will be the servers buttonface color, not the browsers.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

"Ade" <no********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Aha! Classic case of posting too soon.

Anyway, if anybody else is looking for the answer to this, you can use the
ColorTranslator class which has a ToHtml method, e.g.

System.Drawing.Color = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Control;

string htmlColor = ColorTranslator.ToHtml(color);

which will return 'buttonface'

:)

Ade.

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"Ade" <no********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello, i've noticed that some old system colors have been left out of the current version of the .net framework, including ButtonFace,
ButtonHighlight & ButtonShadow. It seems these have been replaced by
Control, ControlLight & ControlDark.

The one i'm particularly interested in is Control which when rendered to

the

browser is actually output as buttonface. I need to be able to set the

color

(in the style attribute of the html) of a custom control on the server

side

at runtime and want to be able to convert the system color 'Control' to
'buttonface'. I figure there must be some easy way of doing this but i'm
damned if i can find it.

Anybody, any ideas?

regards,
Ade.