see my color dialog

well this is just a screen shot, nothign else:D

Right now it only shows system colors and knownColors. I guess I have to somehow make a color list of my own, but I dont know which colors I have to select....
anyways, tell me if you think I should add something else to it?

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?postid=1347659



edit: one big question! umm the list that you see is just a series of label controls. The highlighted area is a label, the colors and the text are each separate labels too. Is there any better way to do this, and keep the look like this?

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?postid=1347790


ok, what else should I add? give me some ideas plz

btw can someone tell me how to add the "default" colors? every program has a list of default colors. I'm sure they are not RANDOM colors. This is the list of fireworks "color cubes". I have no idea what pattern they've used to get these. Can someone help me?
http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?postid=1347791
(ahem ahem, yeah I'm using fireworks as an example, everything in my app looks like fireworks:D )

ignore this

Wow looks great!

The 'default' colors are the standard 256 color pallete. They are colors 0 to 255.

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Wow looks great!

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tnx:D:D

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The 'default' colors are the standard 256 color pallete. They are colors 0 to 255.

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umm how can I get those 256 colors though? what's the rgb pattern...?
the one I showed above from fireworks has only 216. The RGB values are incremented by 51. That's how they get their 216 colors.
but how do I get the 256 colors? should be simple, I think I'm turning dumb:D

umm bump, how do I get the 256 color pallet?

I feel stupid for bumping this, because this should be easy... but anyways, I'm still looking for an answer. Anyone knows what I should do to get the default 256 colors?

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Originally posted by MrPolite
This is the list of fireworks "color cubes". I have no idea what pattern they've used to get these. Can someone help me?

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I just worked it out
Add a PictureBox to your form called PictureBox1, and add this code

VB Code:

Private Sub PictureBox1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles PictureBox1.Paint
        Dim overallX As Integer
        Dim overallY As Integer
        Dim Increments() = {0, 42, 91, 144, 198, 255}
        Dim Ix As Integer
        Dim Iy As Integer
        Dim Width As Integer = 10
        Dim Red As Integer
 
 
        For Red = 0 To UBound(Increments)
            For Ix = 0 To UBound(Increments)
                For Iy = 0 To UBound(Increments)
                    Dim R As Rectangle = New Rectangle((Ix * Width) + overallX, (Iy * Width) + overallY, Ix + Width, Iy + Width)
                    Dim Brush As System.Drawing.SolidBrush
                    Brush = New System.Drawing.SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(Increments(Red), Increments(Ix), Increments(Iy)))
                    e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brush, R)
                Next
            Next
 
            overallX += Width * (UBound(Increments) + 1)
            If overallX Mod (3 * (UBound(Increments) + 1)) = 0 Then
                overallX = 0
                overallY += Width * (UBound(Increments) + 1)
            End If
 
        Next
 
 
 
    End Sub

although

VB Code:

overallX += Width * (UBound(Increments) + 1)
            If overallX Mod (3 * (UBound(Increments) + 1)) = 0 Then
                overallX = 0
                overallY += Width * (UBound(Increments) + 1)
            End If

is bugged like hell

It was spose to draw 3 blocks of colours, then move down to draw the other 3 block of colours, but changing the Width variable breaks it :D

hmm looks cool:D anyways the fireworks one and also yours makes 216 colors, hmmmmm!!:D So I guess it wouldnt be the default 256 colors :(
anyways I'll try it soon. Thanks

If you interested this is how i worked it out


I took a screenshot of the fireworks picture you added, then using a paint program i checked what each of the top left across colour values were

I noticed it was all green 0, 42, 91, 144, 198, 255
Then i check the top left down colour values and notice it was all just blue 0, 42, 91, 144, 198, 255

Then i noticed the rest of the colour in the top left colours block were just inbetween values of the above values.

Then I went on to the next colour block and notice the red had increased by the above values

and just write that small routine to show me the results

ok thanks to everyone... here's the working version of it. I made the grayscale ones a little smaller, but they dont fit quite right in the control, I guess it's ok though

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?postid=1378330