<fgColor theme="6" tint="0.39997558519241921"/> - how do I use tint?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

The docs have a single example of applying tint to the Lum in HLS but
nothing for RGB. So...

For a given RGB value how do I apply the tint?

thanks - dave

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[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

Please refer the following document's "Customizing Theme-Aware Colors"
section
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560821.aspx


Best regards,
Colbert Zhou
Microsoft Online Support Team

 

[Tony Jollans]

You can't. You must convert to HLS, apply the tint, and convert back - if
you really need the RGB value, that is, but you don't often need it.

 

[David Thielen]

Hi Dave,

Please refer the following document's "Customizing Theme-Aware Colors"
section
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560821.aspx

Thank you - great reference. Which leads to the question:

Anyone have a url to a well written RGB -> HSL and HSL -> RGB
convertor? Preferably in Java but C# is also good. I did a Google
search but the code I found did not look that professional.

This is weird that colors are stored as RGB but then a tint is
applied. (And we then have to go back to RGB when we render the
output.)

thanks - dave

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me -- http://dave.thielen.com

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[David Thielen]

Thank you - great reference. Which leads to the question:

Anyone have a url to a well written RGB -> HSL and HSL -> RGB
convertor? Preferably in Java but C# is also good. I did a Google
search but the code I found did not look that professional.

ps - I can't use Color.Get* for the HSL because I need a Java version
of this. The Java runtime has RGB <--> HSB but not RGB <--> HSL.

thanks - dave

david@[email protected]
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me -- http://dave.thielen.com

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[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

Here are HLS/Color conversion codes in C# and VB.NET version.
http://www.geekymonkey.com/Programming/CSharp/RGB2HSL_HSL2RGB.htm
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_rgb_to_hls.html


Regards,
Colbert Zhou
Microsoft Online Support Team

 

[Tony Jollans]

The code isn't difficult to write, but I'm not sure it's necessarily enough.
You don't say what colours you are looking at (or why you need to determine
the RGB), but not all colours in Office are held in the same way - there is
some information about Word on my page at
http://www.wordarticles.com/Articles/Colours/2007.htm, but it doesn't hold
true for other apps.

 

[David Thielen]

Hello Dave,

Here are HLS/Color conversion codes in C# and VB.NET version.
http://www.geekymonkey.com/Programming/CSharp/RGB2HSL_HSL2RGB.htm
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_rgb_to_hls.html

thank you

david@[email protected]
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me -- http://dave.thielen.com

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