Thread: Using Color Dialogs

I am using Visual C++ 2010 express, and found this control called Color Dialog. Now, I understand the concept and checked some of the methods but I would appreciate a help on this.

I would like to GET and SET (both) a color from/to this color dialog but based on HSV values (not RGB).

For example:

GET values:

I found there is something called GetHue so that I can get the Hue (H) value from the selected color . I suppose something like (correct me if I am wrong)

HueValue=colorDialog1-> Color->GetHue();

SET Values:


Here is my problem. How to set the predefined color in the Color Dialog to reflect a set of HSV values??
I can see in the control that there are values for HSL, so there must be a way to set these values, but how....


Thank you in advance for your help

Kansai

I don't believe you can. Have a quick search through MSDN for yourself, but I can't find any reference to setting the HSV directly. It appears to be only a convenience conversion and not settable.

But, to be honest, it's not that hard to find the formula to convert HSV to RGB yourself and do things that way. In fact, there's a whole wikipedia article on it.