Re: Saving Colors to a db

I went and looked up the class too - wish I had known about it 6 years
ago when I started writing this project - but now, because I've used my
method, the risk of changing it and breaking the current system is too
great. :(

Dino 

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Peter Osucha
Sent: Wednesday, 18 July 2007 07:01
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Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Saving Colors to a db

Actually, to preserve system colors as well as web colors, use ToOle()
and FromOle() instead of ToWin32() and FromWin32().

peter

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Peter Osucha
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Saving Colors to a db

Russ,

I didn't notice your post until after I had reviewed what Dino
suggested.  And fortunately, yes, the ColorTranslator object works
perfectly.  So there is absolutely not additional code needed.  When I
save to the db, I use the ColorTranslator.ToWin32() method and when I
retrieve from the db, I use the ColorTranslator.FromWin32() method.
Color names - if they exist - are preserved perfectly.

Thanks for the tip

Peter

-----Original Message-----
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Russ Alan
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Saving Colors to a db

Have you looked at ColorTranslator?

Russ

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Dean Cleaver
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Saving Colors to a db

Peter,

I've been doing this for about 6 years, so I'm confident I have the code
that works - somewhere. Let me did around for you - but basically, the
essential bits are to check the incoming string for Color.KnownColor -
i.e. is it "White" or "Red" etc. If that's not the case, check if it's 6
or 8 characters - ARGB hex or RGB hex - it changed at one point I think.

I'll post the sample code once I get a chance to look right through the
layers and see what I do with colour properties.

Dino

-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps
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Peter Osucha
Sent: Tuesday, 3 July 2007 07:35
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Subject: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Saving Colors to a db

Hi,

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?

Peter