Re: Saving Colors to a db

Perhaps you should save the KnownColor instead.

private void Button3_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
  Color col1 = Color.DarkBlue;
  KnownColor knownCol1 = col1.ToKnownColor ( );
  Color col2 = Color.FromKnownColor ( knownCol1 );
  Console.WriteLine ( "{0}, {1}", col1, col2 );
}


HTH
// Ryan

On 7/3/07, Peter Osucha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Chris.  The intended audience is somewhat consumer - it is
> another piece of software that goes with a piece of hardware (I always
> seem to work on such products).  I'll just stick with the color number.
> However, since I am using a color dropdown that allows colors to be
> chosen using the Web, System, or palette color selections, it seemed
> like I should try to preserve the user's choice.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps
> and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Chris Anderson
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 5:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Saving Colors to a db
>
> Web colours are different - they are code as well (HTML) and are encoded
> in English regardless of locale.
>
> However, in programs like Paint, etc where the user is only interested
> in colour, they are only shown the colour itself and the RGB and/or HSV
> values.
>
> You do get some apps that will show you colour names - but I can't think
> of any non-development ones OTTOMH.
> Even Photoshop only shows you numeric values IIRC
>
> So really I suppose it depends on your target audience/use.
> Are you selecting colours for development purposes where the colour name
> is actually hardwired into the language (like .NET HTML, etc) or is it a
> consumer app like Paint or Photoshop where the colours are simply
> colours?
>
> If the former, you can safely give them names as they are the same
> regardless of language, but in the latter I would stick with numbers
> and/or colour cubes, etc (ie a non-locale method of colour selection)
>
> Chris
>
>
> > 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
> > and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > Chris Anderson
> > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 4:20 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > 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)
>