SystemColor Enumeration

Enumeration of windows system colors.

Syntax

Visual Basic

'Declaration
 
Public Enum SystemColor 
   Inherits System.Enum

C#

public enum SystemColor : System.Enum 

Members

Member	Description
ActiveBorder	The color of the active window's border
ActiveCaption	The color of the background of the active window's title bar.
ActiveCaptionText	The color of the text in the active window's title bar.
AppWorkspace	The color of the application workspace. The application workspace is the area in a multiple-document view that is not being occupied by documents.
Control	The face color of a 3-D element.
ControlDark	The shadow color of a 3-D element. The shadow color is applied to parts of a 3-D element that face away from the light source.
ControlDarkDark	The dark shadow color of a 3-D element. The dark shadow color is applied to the parts of a 3-D element that are the darkest color.
ControlLight	The light color of a 3-D element. The light color is applied to parts of a 3-D element that face the light source.
ControlLightLight	The highlight color of a 3-D element. The highlight color is applied to the parts of a 3-D element that are the lightest color.
ControlText	The color of text in a 3-D element.
Desktop	The color of the desktop.
GrayText	The color of dimmed text. Items in a list that are disabled are displayed in dimmed text.
Highlight	The color of the background of selected items. This includes selected menu items as well as selected text.
HighlightText	The color of the text of selected items.
HotTrack	The color used to designate a hot-tracked item.
InactiveBorder	The color of an inactive window's border.
InactiveCaption	The color of the background of an inactive window's title bar.
InactiveCaptionText	The color of the text in an inactive window's title bar.
Info	The color of the background of a ToolTip.
InfoText	The color of the text of a ToolTip.
Menu	The color of a menu's background.
MenuText	The color of a menu's text.
ScrollBar	The color of the background of a scroll bar.
Window	The color of the background in the client area of a window.
WindowFrame	The color of a window frame.
WindowText	The color of the text in the client area of a window.

Requirements

Target Platforms: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2