desktop bg color as bg color in gui

[mscrx]

I tried to get the value of the background color from [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] Background"="58 110 165"

but when I use this value 58110165 as bg color for the gui it wont be the same color as it is on the desktop. I assume this is because the desktop color is being calculated by 3 other factors (hue, sat, lum). is it possible to get the correct value for the color somewhere else so that the gui has the same color?

[Siao]

I assume this is because the desktop color is being calculated by 3 other factors (hue, sat, lum).

No, it's because that registry entry is a string which contains 3 decimal values, each representing R G and B, separated by spaces.

While the value used in ...SetColor functions is a composition of these values in hexadecimal, in form of 0x00RRGGBB.

Anyway, you don't need registry for that.

$aRet = DllCall('user32.dll', 'int', 'GetSysColor', 'int', 1) ;1 = COLOR_DESKTOP
GUISetBkColor(RGB2BGR($aRet[0]))

Func RGB2BGR($iColor)
    Return BitAND(BitShift(String(Binary($iColor)), 8), 0xFFFFFF)
EndFunc

Edited January 8, 2008 by Siao