>>No. That wouldn't be my idea of fun. I simply started wtih the PowerBasic version of an include file that had those constants defined as noted in my original message. This file was included with RMChart's samples.
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>>I'm assuming that PowerBasic (in combination with RMChart) somehow handled those definitions correctly and VFP cannot without removing the leading FFs.
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>0xFFF0F8FF is an integer with decimal value of -984833 but VFP interprets it as 4293982463. As I showed in one of the previous messages, BITAND(0xFFF0F8FF, 0xFFFFFFFF) takes care of that problem by correctly casting the value to the integer.
Mike,
Please check the results using Sergey's and the other simplified solution.
See if the resulting colors are exactly the same.
It seems that the correct approach AS ALWAYS comes from Sergey.
I've just learned a good one too !
You can get some VFP converted color constants directly from Craig Boyd's blog
http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/PermaLink,guid,2d3a877d-3502-4650-bff3-c06c736dc177.aspxor in the file GdiPlusX.h that comes with the GdiPlusX sources library
