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If you are talking about defining your own colors for your Form's Back or ForeColor in design mode...
1. Click on the required Color property.
2. 'Right Click' on a blank square.
You should now get a Define Color Dialog Box.
3. Choose your Color and click on Add Color
You can also replace an existing Color by 'Right Click' over it.
I was trying to give the forms for my program a seperate color scheme from that the user has on their computer. In other words, "I WANT TO THEIR CONTROL THE WORLD!", just joking. I would like to be able to do this. I belonged to a message board that is now extinct. Someone their had sent me a mini project in which they acomplished this. It was about a year ago and I looked at it and said, "neat".(It was before I realy started on my project full on. It was already complied as an exe so I couldn't see the actual code.
Or at least I think you can. It's somewhere in this site I think. You use an API call to modify the titlebar colour. I'm pretty sure it can be adapted to control the button colours and stuff. Not quite sure. I'll go have a look for it and stick up a link if I find it...
This link isn't what I thought it was. The tutorial says it's for Windows 95. Haven't had chance to try it with anything else, but you might as well have a go.:) Not quite the solution I thought it was. Sorry for gettin your hopes up!:rolleyes:
You can specify a 256-colour bitmap as a palette in any form.... It's up to you after that, I'm afraid.
What I need for my project is to save as 256color Bitmap
MSPaint can do this for you. Also use "imaging", I believe it does a better job. Even better still, you can use the trial version of PSP from Jasc to do this, and you will get little to no immediate visual loss.