Colors in datagrid

[Starbuck]

HI

In a previous versino of one of our apps we would store numeric values such
as 16777088 which we used to set the grid colors of a job on a TrueGrid grid
in VB6.
Now in VB.Net we are using the DataGrid and cannot convert these integer
values to System.Drawing.Brush values.

We have tried
NewTextBrush = DirectCast(Colour_Data(0).fcol.ToString,
System.Drawing.Brush)
but this returns a cast error
IS there a way of doing this?
Thanks in advance

Starbuck

[Larry Lard]

Starbuck wrote:

HI

In a previous versino of one of our apps we would store numeric values such as 16777088 which we used to set the grid colors of a job on a TrueGrid grid in VB6.

Now in VB.Net we are using the DataGrid and cannot convert these integer values to System.Drawing.Brush values.

We have tried
NewTextBrush = DirectCast(Colour_Data(0).fcol.ToString,
System.Drawing.Brush)
but this returns a cast error

System.Drawing.Brush is an abstract class, so you must first decide
what concrete type of Brush you want. I'm guessing you want a
SolidBrush. The constructor for SolidBrush wants a Color, so let's go
look at that. We see that Color has a static (class) method called
FromArgb for making Color objects from numbers. Easiest to use is
FromArgb(Integer) where Integer is a complete 32-bit value. The top
byte is the alpha (transparency) value which you probably want as 255
(fully opaque) - the low three bytes are the RGB values you already
have. So we finally have:

Dim NewTextBrush as SolidBrush = _
New SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(&Hff000000 + Colour_Data(0).fcol))

--
Larry Lard
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[Phill. W]

"Starbuck" <ke*@kevsbox.com> wrote in message
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In a previous versino of one of our apps we would store numeric
values such as 16777088 which we used to set the grid colors of
a job on a TrueGrid grid in VB6.

Now in VB.Net we are using the DataGrid and cannot convert these
integer values to System.Drawing.Brush values.

Create a new SolidBrush from the RGB components of your numeric
colour value. If you're /lucky/, you /might/ get away with ...

Dim z as New SolidBrush( Color.FromArgb( 16777088 ) )

.... but only if the "old" and "new" R, G and B components are in the
same order - I'm not sure they are. If not, you'll have to break your
numeric colour down into the three colour components and use

Dim c as Integer = 16777088
Dim R As Integer = (c And &HFF)
Dim G As Integer = (c And &HFF00) >> 8

Dim B as Integer = ( c And &HFF0000 ) >> 16

Dim z as New SolidBrush( Color.FromArgb( 0, R, G, B ) )

HTH,
Phill W.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Starbuck" <ke*@kevsbox.com> schrieb:

In a previous versino of one of our apps we would store numeric values
such as 16777088 which we used to set the grid colors of a job on a
TrueGrid grid in VB6.

Now in VB.Net we are using the DataGrid and cannot convert these integer
values to System.Drawing.Brush values.

\\\
Dim b As New SolidBrush(ColorTranslator.FromOle(&H...))
///

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Starbuck]

Thanks for the tips guys.

Best Regards

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:es**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

"Starbuck" <ke*@kevsbox.com> schrieb:

In a previous versino of one of our apps we would store numeric values
such as 16777088 which we used to set the grid colors of a job on a
TrueGrid grid in VB6.

Now in VB.Net we are using the DataGrid and cannot convert these integer
values to System.Drawing.Brush values.

\\\
Dim b As New SolidBrush(ColorTranslator.FromOle(&H...))
///

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>