How to get color value from colordialog

[Winanjaya]

I am very new in Vb.NET ..
I need to save color value to a table, How to get the value of color?
Dim MyDialog As New ColorDialog
' Keeps the user from selecting a custom color.
MyDialog.AllowFullOpen = False
' Allows the user to get help. (The default is false.)
MyDialog.ShowHelp = True
' Sets the initial color select to the current text color,
MyDialog.Color = LblPreviewColor.ForeColor

' Update the text box color if the user clicks OK
If (MyDialog.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK) Then
LblPreviewColor.ForeColor = MyDialog.Color

' How to get the color value??

End If

I need advice .. thanks

Winanjaya

[Wallabie]

Hi

This works for me, just modify it to your needs.

  'Open the color dialog control
        With ColorDialog
            'Get the current color from the picturebox
            .Color = Me.picCropColor.BackColor
            If .ShowDialog = DialogResult.OK Then

                Try
                    'Place the color in the picbox
                    Me.picCropColor.BackColor = ColorDialog.Color
                    Dim colour As Integer = ColorTranslator.ToWin32(ColorDialog.Color)

                    Me.lblColor.Text = colour.ToString

                Catch
                    Dim Msgbox As MessageBox
                    Msgbox.Show("Error! " & vbCrLf & "An error has occured while trying to set the color to the controls", "Error!", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
                    'Now exit
                    End

                End Try
            End If
        End With

[Winanjaya]

Thanks.

Dim colour As Integer = ColorTranslator.ToWin32(ColorDialog.Color)
this will return a long type variable and then I save it to a table..
but when I recall it from table, how to implement it to "lblColor.ForeColor"

I need advice .. many thanks in advance

Regards
Winanjaya

[Wallabie]

Hi

To retrieve the colour and set a label or column in a listview you do:

'Retrieve the color from the stored integer value
   Dim colour As ColorTranslator
   osItem.BackColor = colour.FromWin32(CInt(drv("GrainColour").ToString))

This is for a listview but you would replace osItem.BackColor with Label1.BackColor or whatever. I've stored the integer value in the field drv("GrainColour")

You'll have to change that to your setup.

[Winanjaya]

Thanks ....