how do you get a color from a text box?

[Jprevails]

I am very new to programming, and I need to learn how to get a color from a text box:

Color color = Color.Parse(tex tBoxNewValue.Te xt);
//set the Color field to the new value
box.setColor(co lor);
//put the updated box back in the list
//to relect the change
boxlist[index] = box;

this works for me with a decimal, but I cannot find the proper code to do it for a color, Please help?

[tlhintoq]

A text box actually has two color properties: backcolor and forecolor.

You get them just like you get the text value.

string myString = myTextBox.Text;
color myBackgroundcolor = myTextbox.BackColor;
color myTextColor = myTextBox.Forecolor;

[Jprevails]

Thank you for responding

I am not sure I made my question clear though, I need to get a user entered color (text such as 'Blue') from the text box.
so I don't think the back or foreground colors apply.

I could of course be wrong, my brother is teaching me and he says I always overthink my problems

[tlhintoq]

OHhh... Sorry. I misunderstood.

Do you really trust the user to enter the color by name in a textbox?
What if they enter 'grey' instead of 'gray' ?

What do you think of a combobox that you can pre-populate with a list of all the available colors? Then they pick from the list?

Otherwise, you will have to take their text and loop through the list of KnownColor for a match.

[Jprevails]

Thank you! this whas just what I needed!


" Otherwise, you will have to take their text and loop through the list of KnownColor for a match. "

[Plater]

You didn't want to use the ColorDialog ?