Keith Hill [MVP]

"Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote in message news:%23Mz37NaYHHA.2436@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> PowerShell/.NET/COM have anything that can take a 'human readable' color
> like "red" and convert it to hex, and vice-versa?
>

42# ipasm System.Drawing # from PSCX 1.1

GAC Version Location
--- ------- --------
True v2.0.50727 C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Drawing\2.0.0.0__b...


43# [drawing.Color]::FromName('red')


R : 255
G : 0
B : 0
A : 255
IsKnownColor : True
IsEmpty : False
IsNamedColor : True
IsSystemColor : False
Name : Red

44# "0x{0:X}" -f [drawing.Color]::FromName('red').R
0xFF

To go the other way is a bit harder:

57# [Enum]::GetValues([drawing.KnownColor]) | %{$c = [drawing.color]::FromKnownC
olor($_); if ($c.ToArgb() -eq 0xffff0000) { "The color is $_" }}
The color is Red

Note that the hex format is AARRGGBB where AA is the alpha channel and is normally set to FF.

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Keith