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"JBH" <jhanson@ae-solutions.com> wrote:

>I've noticed that colors like clWhite and clBlue resolve to 0xFFFFFF and 
>0xFF0000, respectively.  However, colors like clActiveBorder and 
>clBackground resolve to 0x8000000A and 0x80000001, respectively.  If I want 
>to extract the actual RGB information from these latter colors, where is the 
>RGB information stored?  Could someone give a brief explaination or a link 
>to the info, because I couldn't find it in the Builder help system.  Many 
>thanks,

Those are not RGB values. Instead, it's saying "Go get the system colour
for this instead."

You need to go check GetSysColor(). I strongly suspect that you'll find
that the clxxx values match the COLOR_xxx values with 0x80000000 added.

In other words:

  if (colour & 0x80000000)
  {
     colour = GetSysColor(colour & 0x7FFFFFFF);
  }

  // now extract RGB value as previously

Alan Bellingham
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