int GetWindowsColor (int displayElement, unsigned int *color);
This function retrieves the 0RGB color of a Windows display element. This is useful if you want to query the OS for its display colors and adjust your own application's display elements, such as Graph plot areas, which are not affected by the Conform To System Colors attribute.
Input | ||
Name | Type | Description |
displayElement | integer | The Windows display element to query for its color. |
Output | ||
Name | Type | Description |
color | unsigned integer * | Returns the color of the display element. The most significant byte of this four–byte value will be 0, and the lower three bytes will contain the Red, Green, and Blue components of the color, respectively. This corresponds to the color format used throughout the CVI standard libraries. |
Name | Type | Description |
status | integer | The status code that the function returns. 0 indicates success. A negative value indicates an error. This function may return a Programmer's Toolbox or UI Library error code. Call GetGeneralErrorString to obtain a text description of the error. |