see my color dialog

[MrPolite]

well this is just a screen shot, nothign else

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?





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?

[MrPolite]

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?

(ahem ahem, yeah I'm using fireworks as an example, everything in my app looks like fireworks )

[MrPolite]

ignore this

[Edneeis]

Wow looks great!

[Lord_Rat]

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

[MrPolite]

Wow looks great!

tnx

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

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

[MrPolite]

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

[MrPolite]

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?

[Geespot]

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?

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

[Geespot]

although

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

[MrPolite]

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

[Geespot]

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

[MrPolite]

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