Setting colors on components

[K Viltersten]

I've used the Colors class to access a bunch
of colors for my applications. Now, i'd like
to create a family for of each such color as
follows.

public Color Normal
{get{return Colors.Orange;}}
public Color Washed
{get{return Colors.Yellow;}}
public Color Satured
{get{return Colors.Red;}}

However, i don't really feel like setting up
a static map for each (most) of the colors.
I'd strongly prefer a facility that would
simply give me a washed and a saturated
version of whatever i put in.

Hints other than "write it yourself, you
lazy bum!", may i hope?

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[Lee]

How are you determining which color is the Washed and Satured version
of the original color?

L. Lee Saunders
http://oldschooldotnet.blogspot.com

On Oct 23, 7:56*am, "K Viltersten" <[e-mail]:

I've used the Colors class to access a bunch
of colors for my applications. Now, i'd like
to create a family for of each such color as
follows.

* public Color Normal
* * {get{return Colors.Orange;}}
* public Color Washed
* * {get{return Colors.Yellow;}}
* public Color Satured
* * {get{return Colors.Red;}}

However, i don't really feel like setting up
a static map for each (most) of the colors.
I'd strongly prefer a facility that would
simply give me a washed and a saturated
version of whatever i put in.

Hints other than "write it yourself, you
lazy bum!", may i hope?

--
Regards
Konrad Viltersten
----------------------------------------
May all spammers die an agonizing death;
have no burial places; their souls be
chased by demons in Gehenna from one room
to another for all eternity and beyond.

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:56:38 -0700, K Viltersten <tm**@viltersten.com>
wrote:

I've used the Colors class to access a bunch
of colors for my applications. Now, i'd like
to create a family for of each such color as
follows.

public Color Normal
{get{return Colors.Orange;}}
public Color Washed
{get{return Colors.Yellow;}}
public Color Satured
{get{return Colors.Red;}}

However, i don't really feel like setting up
a static map for each (most) of the colors.
I'd strongly prefer a facility that would
simply give me a washed and a saturated
version of whatever i put in.

Hints other than "write it yourself, you
lazy bum!", may i hope?

Unfortunately, as far as I know, neither .NET nor Windows provide built-in
conversion functions to go from HSV to RGB. The most natural way to
approach your problem would be to adjust the colors saturation in the HSV
color space and then generate an equivalent RGB value. (Oddly enough, you
_can_ go from RGB to HSV using the .NET Color structure, as it has
GetSaturation(), GetHue(), and GetBrightness() methods).

I find this especially odd, considering the built-in color picker dialog
does present the HSV model as an option.

If you want to write your own HSV to RGB function, you may find these
references useful:
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ncs/color/t_convert.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/cjacks/archive...12/575476.aspx
http://splinter.com.au/blog/?p=29

Just take the color you want to saturate or desaturate, use the .NET
methods to get the HSV values, adjust the S component as desired up or
down, and then convert back to RGB using one of those algorithms (they are
all based on the same source, so they ought to be equivalent...I didn't
check them closely to make sure though).

Pete

[Jeff Johnson]

"K Viltersten" <tm**@viltersten.comwrote in message
news:6m************@mid.individual.net...

However, i don't really feel like setting up
a static map for each (most) of the colors.
I'd strongly prefer a facility that would
simply give me a washed and a saturated
version of whatever i put in.

Hints other than "write it yourself, you
lazy bum!", may i hope?

Color matrices are wonderful for this. But it'll be up to you to decide on
the matrix...!

Check out this guy's excellent page, and consider posting further questions
on this in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.drawing:
http://www.bobpowell.net/faqmain.htm

I found another excellent page on matrices when I was doing something a
while back, but if I have the link at all it's at home, not here, so if I
remember to dig it up I'll post it too. Of course, there's always Google....

[K Viltersten]

>However, i don't really feel like setting up

>a static map for each (most) of the colors.
I'd strongly prefer a facility that would
simply give me a washed and a saturated
version of whatever i put in.

Hints other than "write it yourself, you
lazy bum!", may i hope?

Color matrices are wonderful for this. But it'll be up to you to decide on
the matrix...!

Check out this guy's excellent page, and consider posting further
questions on this in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.drawing:
http://www.bobpowell.net/faqmain.htm

I found another excellent page on matrices when I was doing something a
while back, but if I have the link at all it's at home, not here, so if I
remember to dig it up I'll post it too. Of course, there's always
Google....

Thanks to all!

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Regards
Konrad Viltersten
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