Drawing.Color Problem

[Shawn B.]

Greetings,

In creating a server control I added a property of type
System.Drawing.Color.

When the control is rendered, it generates a style that contains a style
called "backgroundColor" that will hold the value of
[Property].ToKnownColor.

It works well, except in some cases (if you set a system-defined color) such
as the "Info" color. When it renders, it simply renders "Info" but in the
style, that's not a known color. The MS controls render it as
"InfoBackground" but I can't see where I get that name from. It appears
that I have to know all these variations in the system-defined colors and
replace them with the proper name. Is there an easier built-in way?


Thanks,
Shawn

 

[saucer]

try to use System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToHtml to convert the color for
you or you can always do

Color c = SystemColors.Info;
string s = ColorTranslator.ToHtml(c);

s = String.Format("#{0:x}{1:x}{2:x}", c.R, c.G, c.B);

 

[Shawn B.]

Hmm... that works. Thanks.

Thanks,
Shawn

try to use System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToHtml to convert the color for
you or you can always do

Color c = SystemColors.Info;
string s = ColorTranslator.ToHtml(c);

s = String.Format("#{0:x}{1:x}{2:x}", c.R, c.G, c.B);

Greetings,

In creating a server control I added a property of type
System.Drawing.Color.

When the control is rendered, it generates a style that contains a style
called "backgroundColor" that will hold the value of
[Property].ToKnownColor.

It works well, except in some cases (if you set a system-defined color) such
as the "Info" color. When it renders, it simply renders "Info" but in the
style, that's not a known color. The MS controls render it as
"InfoBackground" but I can't see where I get that name from. It appears
that I have to know all these variations in the system-defined colors and
replace them with the proper name. Is there an easier built-in way?


Thanks,
Shawn