Can we change the color of a button's text?

[ZeBoxx2]

A. using a dotnet button, yes, easily
B. for maxscript buttons, no. You can, however, try faking it by sticking a Hyperlink control on top (you can set the colors for hyperlink controls). You'll have to make sure to setFocus to the hyperlink to (hopefully) pop it back to the foreground after the user presses the button.

[j-man]

or by using an image button?

J.

[Jausn]

I know that we can use a .net button and set its foreColor to a disired color.
But my problem is that the foreColor property is a System.Drawing.Color and we just can set the color to one of the following preset colors.

.A : <System.Byte>, read-only
.AliceBlue : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.AntiqueWhite : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.Aqua : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.Aquamarine : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.Azure : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.B : <System.Byte>, read-only
.Beige : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.Bisque : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.Black : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.BlanchedAlmond : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.Blue : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.BlueViolet : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.Brown : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
.BurlyWood : <System.Drawing.Color>, read-only, static
... ...
... ...

And you can't set it to a random color like color 50 50 50.

So how can we set the color to any color we want?

[ZeBoxx2]

sure you can - see the .fromARGB method


rollout roll_test "test" width:416 height:66 (
dotNetControl dno_label "Windows.Forms.Label" width:400 height:50

fn dotnetcolor r g b = (
(dotNetClass "System.Drawing.Color").fromARGB r g b
)

on roll_test open do (
dno_label.text = "Hello World"
dno_label.font = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Font" "Bookman Old Style" 24
dno_label.foreColor = (dotnetcolor 255 128 64)
)
)
createDialog roll_test

[Jausn]

Thank you!
I've found this method from this file below:


[3dsMax Path]\stdplugs\stdscripts\NET_ListViewWrapper.ms




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