Color Equality

[Nathan Sokalski]

Is there a way to check whether two Colors are equal? If the Colors have
different Name properties, the = operator will return false even if the
A,R,G, and B properties are equal. I would like to be able to check whether
two colors are equal based only on the properties that determine what color
will be displayed. Is there a way to do this without writing my own method?
Thanks.
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Nathan Sokalski
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[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Both the Equals method and the = operator check for known colours. The only
way to check colour equality in a numerical manner is to compare the RGB
value. Probably the easiest way is to convert to integer and compare those.

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Is there a way to check whether two Colors are equal? If the Colors have
different Name properties, the = operator will return false even if the
A,R,G, and B properties are equal. I would like to be able to check
whether two colors are equal based only on the properties that determine
what color will be displayed. Is there a way to do this without writing my
own method? Thanks.
--
Nathan Sokalski
nj********@hotmail.com
http://www.nathansokalski.com/

[Jack Jackson]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:32:24 -0500, "Nathan Sokalski"
<nj********@hotmail.comwrote:

>Is there a way to check whether two Colors are equal? If the Colors have
different Name properties, the = operator will return false even if the
A,R,G, and B properties are equal. I would like to be able to check whether
two colors are equal based only on the properties that determine what color
will be displayed. Is there a way to do this without writing my own method?
Thanks.

If color1.ToArgb() = color2.ToArgb() Then

See
<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.color.equals(vs.71).aspx>