"Evan Stone" <recombinantspam_n0spaam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I was just curious to know if there was a limit to the range of colors a
> label control can display. For instance if I set a label control's
> ForeColor to 28, 23, 15 it renders black (on my system, at least - but I'm
> running an nVIDIA GeForce 440 MX 64MB card running in 32-bit color, which
> should be plenty able to render that properly).
>
> Anyway, it occurred to me that perhaps the label had a restricted color
> range, and if this is the case, which other controls might this
> restriction apply to?
>
> thanks!
>
> evan k. stone | software engineer
> ----------------------------------------
> santa rosa, ca, usa
>
>

> Hi,
>
> I was just curious to know if there was a limit to the range of colors
> a label control can display. For instance if I set a label control's
> ForeColor to 28, 23, 15 it renders black (on my system, at least - but
> I'm running an nVIDIA GeForce 440 MX 64MB card running in 32-bit
> color, which should be plenty able to render that properly).
>
> Anyway, it occurred to me that perhaps the label had a restricted
> color range, and if this is the case, which other controls might this
> restriction apply to?
>
> thanks!
>
> evan k. stone | software engineer
> ----------------------------------------
> santa rosa, ca, us

> I was just curious to know if there was a limit to the range of colors a
> label control can display. For instance if I set a label control's
> ForeColor to 28, 23, 15 it renders black (on my system, at least - but I'm
> running an nVIDIA GeForce 440 MX 64MB card running in 32-bit color, which
> should be plenty able to render that properly).