ISControl.Color

Description

This property returns the control colour encoded as 32 bit integer value, where the first byte contains Red channel, the second byte - Green channel and the third byte - Blue channel.

Syntax

object.Color

Part	Attribute	Type	Description
`object`	Required	ISControl	The `object` always implements the ISControl interface

Return Value

uint

Example

Display some information about the control, including the control colour in HEX format.

Dim aControl
Dim aControlInfo

Set aControl = Form.Controls_("memComment")

aControlInfo =_
  "Caption: " & aControl.Caption & vbNewLine &_ 
  "ShortName: " & aControl.ShortName & vbNewLine &_
  "Color (BGR): #" & HEX(aControl.Color) 
  
Profile.MsgBox(aControlInfo)

Note: This macro should be executed in any event handler of the form control.

In Profile Client v8 on User Interface Color can be found in Maintain > Templates > Health Record Collection Templates > Open the selected form template > Open form editor > Object Inspector > Select the control in the controls tree > Color.

Version information

Added in v7.8.0