Windows Theme colors

[gedumer]

Can someone please tell me how to get the windows xp theme colors from a FB program?

[dkl]

Well, the Windows API has GetSysColor(), which will get the system colors as set by the theme, MSDN documentation:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

and the uxtheme lib (responsible for theme things) also has functions to directly query information about a theme, for example here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

and the others in that section... I've only got experience with GetSysColor though.

[those urls with parenthesis are evil]

[counting_pine]

Yeah, they're pretty evil...
One possible workaround is to use the %xx notation on them. The () brackets are %28 and %29.

The MSDN urls tend to work without the parentheses anyway though:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724371
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773397

[gedumer]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724371
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773397

Thanks to you both. The links were invaluable. The 1st certainly gets the stock system colors, while the 2nd is great for obtaining theme values.

Thanks again.