>I need to determine the Windows Control Panel Settings for the Selected Item Back & Fore Colors? How do I do it?
You can retrieve the values from the registry. The current user's color settings is under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Colors. While the values are stored as strings, they're in the familiar RGB pattern (e.g. "255 255 255").
hth,
George
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