Saturday, June 14, 2008

Setting BackColor to System Colors (like "Control")

It took a little searching to find out how to set the BackColor or ForeColor property of a control to the predefined colors you gets in the Visual Studio Properties window for BackColor's popup color setting on the System tab. For example, I want to set to the BackColor to the "Control" color.

control.BackColor = Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Control)


I found this on:

http://bytes.com/forum/thread654472.html
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14 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 2:27 AM

    Excellent thanks

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  2. AnonymousJune 12, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    In addition to setting the BackColor back to SystemColors.Control, I found that I also had to set UseVisualStyleBackColor to True to have the button again look as it did by default.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 9:09 AM

    Been looking for this.
    Thanks for the info!

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  4. RajeevOctober 28, 2011 at 7:58 PM

    Thanks,
    It was helpful

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  5. AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 7:08 AM

    saved me lots of time...thanks a lot

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  6. AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 4:05 AM

    This is great for controls like a Button or CheckBox, but controls like a TextBox or ComboBox will need Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Window) (or SystemColors.Window)
    It is better to set the BackColor to Color.Empty or simply use control.ResetBackColor()

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2013 at 6:18 AM

    Thank you very much.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 18, 2013 at 10:59 PM

    Thanks a lot friend

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  9. AnonymousDecember 18, 2013 at 10:59 PM

    Thanks a lot, my friend

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  10. ERJanuary 17, 2014 at 2:44 AM

    Thanks. My first hit on that one and got your answer right away!
    Try SystemColors.Window which does the same as shorter Term

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2014 at 1:25 AM

    Thanks!

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  12. AnonymousMay 8, 2014 at 10:35 AM

    Thank you!

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  13. CharlieJune 2, 2014 at 3:59 PM

    Still thanking!

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  14. AnonymousMay 26, 2017 at 5:05 PM

    And 8 years later, the thanks are still coming in! :)

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