System colors

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I have a custom panel that does this:

  dc.setBackground(wx.Brush(wx.WHITE))
  dc.clear()

But in place of wx.WHITE, I'd really like to get the user's color prefs.
For example, if I choose the "High Intensity" color scheme on Win2k,
then the background color for panels should be black.

I looked wx.Colour docs but didn't see any info or cross refs. I didn't
find anything in the list archives or wiki, but hopefully I just missed
it.

Is there a way to get this info on wx2407, Win2k?

Or could I skip setBackground() and always assume that the dc (which is
a PaintDC) has the right background color?

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Chuck
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Chuck Esterbrook wrote:

I have a custom panel that does this:

  dc.setBackground(wx.Brush(wx.WHITE))
  dc.clear()

But in place of wx.WHITE, I'd really like to get the user's color prefs. For example, if I choose the "High Intensity" color scheme on Win2k, then the background color for panels should be black.

I looked wx.Colour docs but didn't see any info or cross refs. I didn't find anything in the list archives or wiki, but hopefully I just missed it.

Is there a way to get this info on wx2407, Win2k?

See the wxSystemSettings class. From Python the static methods are accessible as wxSystemSettings_GetColour.

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Robin Dunn
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