Where does the color for "Button Face" come from?

[JG]

Hi,

question: When you select the "button face" color, where does PowerBuilder
go to get the RGB value to use? Is this saved in the Registry somewhere?
Or is this a hardcoded value in PB and/or Windows?

I realize one can change different settings via the Display Properties
window. However I do not see an entry named "Button Face".

Any info would be appreciated...

regards,
joe

[Mike Kruchten]

I kept the following post from 2002 as an explanation. Following the post is
the numbers I got after exporting an object with the various colors set.

Mike Kruchten

------------------------------------------------------------------
They are both right, but Roy is "more right" The windows color is
specified by a 4 byte word. The lower 24 bits specify the
combinations of Red Green and Blue components. The upper 8 bits
specify a custom color. If any of the upper bits are set the lower 24
are ignored. Here is the full list:

2^1 = Red
2^2 = Red
2^3 = Red
2^4 = Red
2^5 = Red
2^6 = Red
2^7 = Red
2^8 = Red

2^9 = Green
2^10 = Green
2^11 = Green
2^12 = Green
2^13 = Green
2^14 = Green
2^15 = Green
2^16 = Green

2^17 = Blue
2^18 = Blue
2^19 = Blue
2^20 = Blue
2^21 = Blue
2^22 = Blue
2^23 = Blue
2^24 = Blue

2^25 = Window Text
2^26 = buttonface
2^27 = scrollbar background
2^28 = app. workspace
2^29 = transparent
2^30 = Window Background
2^31 = unused
2^32 = unused

Boris Gasin [TeamSybase]
mailto:bga...@dynamictechgroup.com

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window_background = 1073741824
window_text = 33554432
application_workspace = 268435456
button_face = 67108864
scrollbar = 134217728
desktop = 134217729
active_title_bar = 134217730
inactive_title_bar = 134217731
menu_bar = 134217732
window_frame = 134217734
menu_text = 134217735
active_titlebar_text = 134217737
active_border = 134217738
inactive_border = 134217739
highlight = 134217741
highlight_text = 134217742
button_shadow = 134217744
disabled_text = 134217745
button_text = 134217746
inactive_titlebar_text = 134217747
button_highlight = 134217748
button_dark_shadow = 134217749
button_light_shadow = 134217750
tooltip_text = 134217751
tooltip = 134217752
link = 134217856
link_hover = 134217857
link_active = 134217858
link_visited = 134217859

[Daniel Coppersmith]

The actual color of button face comes from the windows preferences. It's no
doubt stored in the registry somewhere, but where exactly, not sure.

"Mike Kruchten" <mkru...@fsisolutions.com> wrote in message
news:40a28a5b$1@forums-2-dub...

[Search4]

Hi,

That's how we got the 'Buttonface' color

li_return = RegistryGet("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors",
"ButtonFace", RegString!, ls_buttoncolor)
IF li_return = -1 THEN
il_buttoncolor = RGB(192,192,192)
ELSE
li_color = 1
li_buttonpos = 1
li_buttonstart = 1
FOR li_color = 1 TO 3
li_buttonpos = pos(ls_buttoncolor," ",li_buttonstart)
li_buttonrgb[li_color] = integer(mid(ls_buttoncolor,li_buttonstart,
li_buttonpos))
li_buttonstart = li_buttonpos
NEXT
il_buttoncolor = RGB(li_buttonrgb[1],li_buttonrgb[2],li_buttonrgb[3])

IF IsNull(il_buttoncolor) OR il_buttoncolor = -1 THEN il_buttoncolor =
rgb(192,192,192)
END IF

Greets,
Search4

"Daniel Coppersmith" <daniel_N.0.S.P.A.M_at_InFrontSoftware_D0T_C0M> wrote
in message news:40a29d64$1@forums-2-dub...

[Ken Balakrishnan]

If you're asking about how a user would change this value, it's equivalent
to the "3D Objects" item in the Appearance setup.

Ken

"JG" <nospam> wrote in message news:40a2844e$1@forums-2-dub...