Printer.ForeColor Property

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09/30/2015

Gets or sets the color in which text and graphics are printed.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Printing.Compatibility.VB6
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Vs (in Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Vs.dll)

Syntax

public int ForeColor { get; set; }

public:
property int ForeColor {
    int get();
    void set(int value);
}

member ForeColor : int with get, set

Public Property ForeColor As Integer

Property Value

Type: System.Int32

Returns an Integer.

Remarks

The ForeColor property determines the color of text used in the Print method. For graphics methods, the ForeColor property determines the border color for the shape, whereas the FillColor property determines the color of the shape itself.

Note

You can convert any .NET Framework Color or SystemColors color value to a ForeColor value by calling the ToArgb function:

Printer.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Violet.ToArgb

The following table lists the ColorConstants and SystemColorConstants values that are valid for the ForeColor property.

Constant	Value	.NET Framework equivalent
vbBlack	&h00	Black
vbRed	&hFF	Red
vbGreen	&hFF00	Green
vbYellow	&hFFFF	Yellow
vbBlue	&hFF0000	Blue
vbMagenta	&hFF00FF	Magenta
vbCyan	&hFFFF00	Cyan
vbWhite	&hFFFFFF	White
vbScrollBars	&H80000000	ScrollBar
vbDesktop	&H80000001	Desktop
vbActiveTitleBar	&H80000002	ActiveCaption
vbInactiveTitleBar	&H80000003	InactiveCaption
vbMenuBar	&H80000004	Menu
vbWindowBackground	&H80000005	Window
vbWindowFrame	&H80000006	WindowFrame
vbMenuText	&H80000007	MenuText
vbWindowText	&H80000008	WindowText
vbTitleBarText	&H80000009	ActiveCaptionText
vbActiveBorder	&H8000000A	ActiveBorder
vbInactiveBorder	&H8000000B	InactiveBorder
vbApplicationWorkspace	&H8000000C	P:System.Drawing.SystemColors.AppWorkSpace
vbHighlight	&H8000000D	Highlight
vbHighlightText	&H8000000E	HighlightText
vbButtonFace	&H8000000F	ButtonFace
vbButtonShadow	&H80000010	ControlDark
vbGrayText	&H80000011	GrayText
vbButtonText	&H80000012	ControlText
vbInactiveCaptionText	&H80000013	InactiveCaptionText
vb3DHighlight	&H80000014	ControlLightLight
vb3DDKShadow	&H80000015	ControlDarkDark
vb3DLight	&H80000016	ControlLight
vb3DFace	&H8000000F	ControlDark
vb3Dshadow	&H80000010	ControlDarkDark
vbInfoText	&H80000017	InfoText
vbInfoBackground	&H80000018	Info

Note

Functions and objects in the Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Printing.Compatibility.VB6 namespace are provided for use by the tools for upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic. In most cases, these functions and objects duplicate functionality that you can find in other namespaces in the .NET Framework. They are necessary only when the Visual Basic 6.0 code model differs significantly from the .NET Framework implementation.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to set the ForeColor property.

Dim pr As New Printer
pr.ForeColor = vbRed
pr.Circle(2000, 2000, 1000)
pr.EndDoc()

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Printer.ForeColor Property

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