Colours

[Tipidy]

Hey all,

I have a question, I have been teaching myself Delphi 6 in the last couple of days. I don't like the default colours that Delphi 6 uses. I know I can change the colours in the code, the problem is where can I get a freeware colour picker for programmer's.

Thanks in advance.
--Tipidy

 

[Glenn9999]

It's generally not good to do anything to break the Windows theme when you do things. But beyond that, this will help your need:

http://www.colorschemer.com/colorpix_info.php

 

[Griffyn]

To elaborate on Glenn9999's answer, it's best to leave colours as they are for the most part because users generally want the applications they run to look the way they want (case in point). If you want to change the colours you see in Delphi, perhaps just change your Window's colours via the Display properties in the Control Panel.

 

[Stretchwickster]

If you are simply saying that the default TColor values defined in the Graphics unit are not to your taste then you can construct your own by using,
(a) the RGB function

myWhite := RGB(255, 255, 255);

OR

(b) the hexadecimal representation of the colour

myWhite := TColor($FFFFFF);

For your information myWhite is a variable of type TColor.

The link Glenn gave is a good one. Also, check out the following sites, which I've found useful as colour pickers/combination choosers:

http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html#

http://www.siteprocentral.com/cgi-bin/feed/feed.cgi

Clive

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[Tipidy]

Thank you all for your advice, I really appreciate it