Identifies or modifies the color of a Windows element.
// Identify the color of active title bar
ResColor = SysColor(scActiveCaption)
Syntax
Identifying the color of a Windows element Hide the details
<Result> = SysColor(<Windows element>)
<Result>: Integer
Color of the specified element in RGB format. To retrieve the color components, use RGBBlue, RGBRed and RGBGreen.
<Windows element>: Constant
Windows element to use: | |
| scActiveBorder | Border of active window. |
| scActiveCaption | Title bar active. |
| scAppWorkSpace | Workspace of MDI applications. |
| scBackground | Desktop. |
| scBtnFace | Border of button. |
| scBtnHighLight | Selected button (corresponds to the 3D buttons of Windows 95). |
| scBtnShadow | Shadow of buttons. |
| scBtnText | Text of text buttons. |
| scCaptionText | Text of title bar. |
| scGrayText | Grayed text (returns zero if the display driver contains no grayscale). |
| scHighLight | Background of selected object. |
| scHighLightText | Text of selected object. |
| scInactiveBorder | Border of inactive window. |
| scInactiveCaption | Title bar inactive. |
| scInactiveCaptionText | Title bar inactive. |
| scMenu | Background of menus. |
| scMenuText | Text of menus. |
| scScrollBar | Scroll bar. |
| scWindow | Background of window. |
| scWindowFrame | Border of window. |
| scWindowText | Text of window. |
Remarks
The color depends on the number of colors used by the system and on the screen resolution. This number of colors is returned by
SysColorRes.