Re: Saving Colors to a db

Hmmm, I never thought of that.  How do the Web Colors, for example, show
up on non-english machines?  Perhaps I just shouldn't show the color
name, number, etc. at all and should just show the color, eh?

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps
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Chris Anderson
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 4:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Saving Colors to a db

IMO you shouldn't really be exposing the enumeration names to the user.
It certainly wouldn't help in a non-English environment ;-)

If you needed to though, you could always match it up with the value
comparing to the enum values (I'm assuming you are loading a dropdown
box or similar anyway, so this lookup wouldn't be too difficult)

> I am saving Color values to a database as integers after converting
the
> color using the ToArgb() method.  When I retrieve the color, I am
> resetting it using the FromArgb() method.  However, this doesn't
> preserve the color name if the color has a name - as shown in this
> simple test proc.
> 
>         private void Button3_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )
>         {
>             Color col1 = Color.DarkBlue;
>             int col1int = col1.ToArgb ( );
>             Color col2 = Color.FromArgb ( col1int );
>             Console.WriteLine ( "{0}, {1}", col1, col2 );
>         }
> 
> If I desire to save and retrieve Colors to a database and to preserve
> the color name if it exists, I imagine I need to save a string of the
> name instead of the argb value?