Hex Colour Chooser Sample

Right, I recently created a hex colour chooser using 3 ActiveX slider controls. It's kinda interesting, and should provide a good starting point for anyone interested in changing the bqackground or foreground colours of text boxes a good idea of what to do as well.

It was created as part of a simple database that could change the menu items in an asp page, what they linked to, and what colour they would switch to when the mouse hovered over them (looked like the old magic buttons, but was really just a div changing colours in a table, and the div had the hand cursor though css, so it was hard to believe that it was only text)... I can post that code somewhere too if you guys want, works in IE and Mozilla.

Beyond the colour chooser, it also had an open dialog which would create the Reletive URL from the databases location if it was in or beyond that directory. It did some stuff with file input and used the copy API too if anyone wants me to post the whole thing my employer says I can keep all the database code and objects I create so long as I delete any sensitive data.

The coolest part is the colour picker though, which I have posted here

To use it, just do a DoCmd.OpenForm. If you pass it an OpenArgs value that is a hex string (as you would see in a website, so #RRGGBB) then it will start out at that colour, and restore to it as well with the return to original colour button. You should open it up as a dialog really, then check the global variable strColourChosen (declared in the module)

It requires the two functions in the module, the ChangeToHex and ChangeFromHex, to work, and it also requires the global variable strColourChosen.

If you think this is a garbage post, tell me and I'll avoid making them in the future.

-mwalts