"Background" not in KnownColors Enumeration

[Charles Law]

When displaying the Color Picker for a web page (in the VS IDE), Background
is listed on the System Colors tab.

Also,

Color.FromName("Background").IsNamedColor

returns True.

However, Background is not a member of the SystemColors class, and it is not
a member of the KnownColors enum nor the Color structure.

Where can I find this named colour? I want to be able to enumerate all named
colours programmatically, but I cannot find this one (and one or two
others).

TIA

Charles

[Richard Burte]

Seems that the IsNamedColor is checking the name attribute, rather than the
enumeration. IsKnownColor will work correctly. The enumeration is documented
at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

and as you noted doesn't contain the Window Background color. I am going to
forward this to the product team. As a work around you may want to use the
Win32 API to investigate the system color palette.

Cheers,

Richard Burte

"Charles Law" <bl**@thingummy.com> wrote in message
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When displaying the Color Picker for a web page (in the VS IDE), Background is listed on the System Colors tab.

Also,

Color.FromName("Background").IsNamedColor

returns True.

However, Background is not a member of the SystemColors class, and it is not a member of the KnownColors enum nor the Color structure.

Where can I find this named colour? I want to be able to enumerate all named colours programmatically, but I cannot find this one (and one or two
others).

TIA

Charles

[Charles Law]

Thanks for the response Richard. I will have a look at the API.

Charles
"Richard Burte" <rb****@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Seems that the IsNamedColor is checking the name attribute, rather than the enumeration. IsKnownColor will work correctly. The enumeration is documented at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp
and as you noted doesn't contain the Window Background color. I am going to forward this to the product team. As a work around you may want to use the
Win32 API to investigate the system color palette.

Cheers,

Richard Burte

"Charles Law" <bl**@thingummy.com> wrote in message
news:#b*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

When displaying the Color Picker for a web page (in the VS IDE),

Background

is listed on the System Colors tab.

Also,

Color.FromName("Background").IsNamedColor

returns True.

However, Background is not a member of the SystemColors class, and it is

not

a member of the KnownColors enum nor the Color structure.

Where can I find this named colour? I want to be able to enumerate all

named

colours programmatically, but I cannot find this one (and one or two
others).

TIA

Charles

[Richard Burte]

There is a managed collection that returns this information -
System.Drawing.SystemColors
"Charles Law" <bl**@thingummy.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the response Richard. I will have a look at the API.

Charles
"Richard Burte" <rb****@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Seems that the IsNamedColor is checking the name attribute, rather than

the

enumeration. IsKnownColor will work correctly. The enumeration is

documented

at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

and as you noted doesn't contain the Window Background color. I am going

to

forward this to the product team. As a work around you may want to use the Win32 API to investigate the system color palette.

Cheers,

Richard Burte

"Charles Law" <bl**@thingummy.com> wrote in message
news:#b*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

When displaying the Color Picker for a web page (in the VS IDE),

Background

is listed on the System Colors tab.

Also,

Color.FromName("Background").IsNamedColor

returns True.

However, Background is not a member of the SystemColors class, and it

is not

a member of the KnownColors enum nor the Color structure.

Where can I find this named colour? I want to be able to enumerate all

named

colours programmatically, but I cannot find this one (and one or two
others).

TIA

Charles

[Charles Law]

Hi Richard

I have just looked at System.Drawing.SystemColors, but it does not appear to
contain a member "Background" on my m/c. Does it on yours? I am using VS2003
on Win2k SP4.

Charles
"Richard Burte" <rb****@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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There is a managed collection that returns this information -
System.Drawing.SystemColors
"Charles Law" <bl**@thingummy.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the response Richard. I will have a look at the API.

Charles
"Richard Burte" <rb****@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ek**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Seems that the IsNamedColor is checking the name attribute, rather than

the

enumeration. IsKnownColor will work correctly. The enumeration is documented

at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp
and as you noted doesn't contain the Window Background color. I am going

to

forward this to the product team. As a work around you may want to use the Win32 API to investigate the system color palette.

Cheers,

Richard Burte

"Charles Law" <bl**@thingummy.com> wrote in message
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> When displaying the Color Picker for a web page (in the VS IDE),
Background
> is listed on the System Colors tab.
>
> Also,
>
> Color.FromName("Background").IsNamedColor
>
> returns True.
>
> However, Background is not a member of the SystemColors class, and

it is not
> a member of the KnownColors enum nor the Color structure.
>
> Where can I find this named colour? I want to be able to enumerate

all named
> colours programmatically, but I cannot find this one (and one or two
> others).
>
> TIA
>
> Charles
>
>