Thanks This was it exactally. Just what I needed. !
Bob Lee

>Bob,
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>>I have found a color palette, on the web, so I know hex color value of the color like CCFF33 however, what I would like to do is use that color palette on forms in VFP.
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>>Does anyone know of way to conver web hex colors to RGB colors as used in VFP so the colors come out the VFP uses hem like 1280052125
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>HTML colors are specified as RGB with two hex digits per color. You can convert them to VFP colors with:
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>lcWebColor = "CCFF33"
>_screen.BackColor = rgb( eval("0x" + substr(lcWebColor,1,2)), eval("0x" + substr(lcWebColor,3,2)), eval("0x" + substr(lcWebColor,5,2)) )
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>>is it a smple as converting the hex to a value ?
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>Nope, try this:
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>_screen.backcolor = 0xCCFF33
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>>Secondly ..
>>Reading up on the set colorscheme to command, I cant see a way to use that command with forms ? am I wrong ?
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>Look at the ColorSource property of the form.