Retrieves the color of the display element specified in the current system configuration. Display elements are all the parts of a window that are displayed on screen.
The value corresponds to a RGB color. Each color has a red, green and blue component in the range [0 ; 255]. The value of the resultant color is calculated as follows: Color = B*65536 + G*256 + R .
Context
Windows client,
Adelia Cloud client.
NUM_BIN_4 |
Index |
Index of the element whose color is to be retrieved.
Possible values:
0 |
Scroll bar gray area |
1 |
Desktop |
2 |
Active window title bar
Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: Specifies the left side color in the color gradient of an active window's title bar if the gradient effect is enabled |
3 |
Inactive window title bar
Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: Specifies the left side color in the color gradient of an inactive window's title bar if the gradient effect is enabled |
4 |
Menu background |
5 |
Window background |
6 |
Main window |
7 |
Text in menus |
8 |
Text in windows |
9 |
Text in title, size box, and scroll bar arrow box |
10 |
Active window border |
11 |
Inactive window border |
12 |
Background color of main window |
13 |
Item(s) selected in a control (list, tree view...) |
14 |
Text of item(s) selected in a control (list, tree view...) |
15 |
Face color for three-dimensional display elements (push button, check box...) and for dialog box backgrounds |
16 |
Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements |
17 |
Disabled text. This color is set to 0 if the current display driver does not support a solid gray color |
18 |
Text on push buttons |
19 |
Text in an inactive window's title bar |
20 |
Light shadow for three-dimensional display elements |
21 |
Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements |
22 |
Light shadow for three-dimensional display elements |
23 |
Tooltip text |
24 |
Tooltip background |
26 |
Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: Color for a hot-tracked item (e. g. tool which is under the mouse in a toolbar) |
27 |
Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: Right side color in the color gradient of an active window's title bar |
28 |
Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: Right side color in the color gradient of an inactive window's title bar |
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NUM_BIN_4 |
Color |
System color of the element. |
NUM_BIN_4 |
ReturnCode |
Return code for the operation: 0 : the operation was successful. -1 : the operation failed because the Index color was not valid. |
/* Retrieving the color of the dialog box background in the Color variable
NUM_BIN_4 Color
NUM_BIN_4 ReturnCode
CALL_DLL 'VATOOLBX.DLL' 'VaToolBxGetSysColor' 15 Color ReturnCode
List of the VaToolBx functions by topic
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