[2.0] Creating a pen or brush from a set of RGB colors?

[Icyculyr]

Is it possible to create a brush or pen with RGB colors like (20, 50, 150) instead of just Brushes.Red, Brushes.Green, I don't see any Brushes or Pens.FromArgb()

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[jmcilhinney]

The answer to your question is "no". That said, it is eminently possible to create a Pen or Brush from a Color value, and there is a Color.FromArgb method.

[Icyculyr]

Can you give an example? I have tried many times in VB & C# to create a brush from a color...

Thanks

[jmcilhinney]

When you read the documentation for the Brush class you must have missed this bit:

This is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated. To create a brush object, use classes derived from Brush, such as SolidBrush, TextureBrush, and LinearGradientBrush.

As you may or may not have noticed, the properties of the Brushes class that are named after colours all return SolidBrush objects.

Is anyone starting to think that reading the documentation is a good idea or am I just wasting my time?