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BackColor Property, Changing the BackColor property of a Form
Qman69
14 Mar, 2007 - 02:40 PM
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Hi,

I'm new to VB programming but used to program in Basic many years ago. My first attempt in VB 2005 is to create a form with Radio buttons on it which change the color of the Form when pressed. One of the Buttons is supposed to respond with a random color (well, one of 21 predefined ones!). I can't work out how to change the BackColor property with a single statement. All I can manage to do is have a Select Case structure with the 21 options predefined and choose which one to execute based on a random number like this --
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Select Case objRandom.Next(0, 20)
            Case 0
                frmMainForm.BackColor = Color.Aquamarine
                strColourName = " Aquamarine"
            Case 1
                frmMainForm.BackColor = Color.Beige
                strColourName = " Beige"

     and so on down to .............

            Case 20
                frmMainForm.BackColor = Color.Transparent
                strColourName = " Transparent"
        End Select

Is there a way of replacing the "Color.whatever" with a strVariable? Then I could replace the whole thing with one or two statements.

Thanks for any help.

This post has been edited by Qman69: 14 Mar, 2007 - 02:42 PM
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14 Mar, 2007 - 03:42 PM
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Absolutely, but not with a String variable. Make an array of Color objects with all the colors that you want available.

Then randomly generate a number between 0 (the start of your array) and the total length-1 of your array.
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        Dim rdnNum As New Random
        Dim colorArray() As Color = {Color.AliceBlue, Color.Brown, Color.Black, Color.Crimson, Color.DarkGoldenrod}

        frmMainForm.BackColor = colorArray(rdnNum.Next(0, 4))
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16 Mar, 2007 - 12:30 AM
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Hi,

Thanks for the help. It's now working a treat.

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