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Color
object stores a 32-bit value that represents a color. The color value contains four, 8-bit components: alpha, red, green, and blue. The first 8 bits (the most significant) contain the alpha component, the next 8 bits contain the red component, the next 8 bits contain the green component, and the next 8 bits (the least significant) contain the blue component. The 32-bit value is stored in a variable of type
ARGB
.
Methods
The
Color
class has these methods.
Color::Color
Creates a Color::Color object and initializes it to opaque black. This is the default constructor.
Color::Color
Creates a Color::Color object by using an ARGB value.
Color::Color
Creates a Color::Color object by using specified values for the red, green, and blue components. This constructor sets the alpha component to 255 (opaque).
Color::Color
Creates a Color::Color object by using specified values for the alpha, red, green, and blue components.
Color::GetA
The Color::GetA method gets the alpha component of this Color object.
Color::GetAlpha
The Color::GetAlpha method gets the alpha component of this Color object.
Color::GetB
The Color::GetB method gets the blue component of this Color object.
Color::GetBlue
The Color::GetBlue method gets the blue component of this Color object.
Color::GetG
The Color::GetG method gets the green component of this Color object.
Color::GetGreen
The Color::GetGreen method gets the green component of this Color object.
Color::GetR
The Color::GetR method gets the red component of this Color object.
Color::GetRed
The Color::GetRed method gets the red component of this Color object.
Color::GetValue
The Color::GetValue method gets the ARGB value of this Color object.
Color::MakeARGB
The Color::MakeARGB method creates a 32-bit value that consolidates the specified alpha, red, green, and blue components.
Color::SetFromCOLORREF
The Color::SetFromCOLORREF method uses a Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI)COLORREF value to set the ARGB value of this Color object.
Color::SetValue
The Color::SetValue method sets the color of this Color object.
Color::ToCOLORREF
The Color::ToCOLORREF method converts this Color object's ARGB value to a Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI)COLORREF value.
The alpha component, the most significant 8 bits, specifies the transparency of a color. All four component values range from 0 to 255. An alpha component value of 0 specifies that the color is transparent, and an alpha value of 255 specifies that the color is opaque. Alpha component values from 1 through 254 specify the degree to which the color is blended with the background when the color is rendered. The red, green, and blue color component values range from 0 to 255 and determine the intensity of the color. The
Color::MakeARGB
method is used to encapsulate the four color components into a single 32-bit value.
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