save / restore button background color to/from a temporary variable 1

[AustinOne]

Hi,

I have searched for this, but couldn't find a specific answer to this:

(Upon some event), I want to temporarily save the background color of a button (whatever that color may be) to a variable, and then, (based on some other event) I want to restore the button's color to the previously saved color stored in that variable. I guess my question has to do with what kind of variable can be used to temporarily save a control's color to and then later restore it from. I don't need to permanently store or persist the value.

Thanks

 

[ousoonerjoe]

This is what I did for coloring a specific cell in a DataGridView in a nutshell.

Dim BgColor As Color = Nothing
'assign variable the color.
BgColor = Color.Maroon
'assign the cell the color via the variable.
dgCtl.Item("JobNum", j).Style.BackColor = BgColor

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[AustinOne]

Thanks!

I guess I was trying to make it more complicated than it is.

I also had to experiment with Thread.Sleep and Application.DoEvents in order to get the screen to update/refresh with the changed color on the button.

Thanks again

 

[ousoonerjoe]

You shouldn't need Sleep, but I had to use DoEvents when in tight loops, etc.

On a good note, if you need to save the color value to a table and then retrieve it later:

BgColor = Color.FromArgb(intColorValue)
intColorValue = BgColor.ToArgb

The function converts the color to an Integer that can be stored as an INT in the database and then converted back to for display.

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[AustinOne]

Good to know!

Thanks!