With XP's default theme (Windows XP style / Default (blue) on the Display
Properties/Appearance tab), the taskbar clock foreground color is white.
Change that to Windows XP style / Olive Green, and that taskbar clock
foreground changes to black.
So my question is, how do I get that color programmaticall y?
Thanks! 5 5264
Hi,
Do you have any information that this color is at all stored anywhere? I
just think the system might check whether the taskbar background is light or
dark and choose the appropriate clock foreground color.
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Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
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news:7a******** *********@newss vr21.news.prodi gy.com... With XP's default theme (Windows XP style / Default (blue) on the Display Properties/Appearance tab), the taskbar clock foreground color is white. Change that to Windows XP style / Olive Green, and that taskbar clock foreground changes to black.
So my question is, how do I get that color programmaticall y?
Thanks!
Hmm....that's an interesting point. But then, how does one determine the
taskbar background color?
Thanks.
"Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]" <x-****@no-spam-please.hotpop.c om> wrote
in message news:Oa******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P12.phx.gbl... Hi,
Do you have any information that this color is at all stored anywhere? I just think the system might check whether the taskbar background is light or dark and choose the appropriate clock foreground color.
-- Sincerely, Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP] Bring the power of unit testing to the VS .NET IDE today! http://www.x-unity.net/teststudio.aspx
"Quoner" <ne**@quone.com > wrote in message news:7a******** *********@newss vr21.news.prodi gy.com... With XP's default theme (Windows XP style / Default (blue) on the Display Properties/Appearance tab), the taskbar clock foreground color is white. Change that to Windows XP style / Olive Green, and that taskbar clock foreground changes to black.
So my question is, how do I get that color programmaticall y?
Thanks!
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry to be such a newbie, but these are the calls I'm now trying:
HTHEME hTheme = OpenThemeData(H WND_DESKTOP, L"Clock");
GetThemeColor(h Theme, CLP_TIME, CLS_NORMAL, TMT_TEXTCOLOR, &color);
But that first call returns NULL for the hTheme. The same call works for,
say, L"Button", but not for L"Clock". Is that first parameter, HWND_DESKTOP,
incorrect, and if so, what is the correct parameter?
Thanks again.
"Mattias Sjögren" <ma************ ********@mvps.o rg> wrote in message
news:OI******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl... So my question is, how do I get that color programmaticall y?
I think you can use OpenThemeData(" Clock") followed by GetThemeColor(C LP_TIME, TMT_TEXTCOLOR). The taskbar clock itself simply uses The DrawThemeText API. If Visual Styles are disables, you can fall back on the button text color. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...nthemedata.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...themecolor.asp Mattias
-- Mattias Sjögren [MVP] mattias @ mvps.org http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/ | http://www.dotnetinterop.com Please reply only to the newsgroup. Is that first parameter, HWND_DESKTOP, incorrect, and if so, what is the correct parameter?
Don't you have your own window handle you can pass in? HWND_DESKTOP is
a pseudo handle for use with the MapWindowPoints function.
Mattias
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