DrawText in Visual Basic 2008

[Aled Owen]

I want to make some text appear on screen what tells me the value of a variable, at the moment I have this:

Code:

Scene.DrawText(sngWalk, 300, 100, red)

Everything is fine but the "red" bit, which is supposed to be defined as an integer, what should I put in place there to make the text colour red (assuming that the field is for that).

Thanks.

[Aled Owen]

Nevermind I'll use Screen2DText.

[micmanos]

Usually it's a Hex format number ...

&hAARRGGBB or in some cases &hRRGGBB ... where ..

AA = 00 to FF - controls the opacity.
RR = 00 to FF - controls the Red.
GG = 00 to FF - controls the Green.
BB = 00 to FF - controls the Blue.

For solid red use .. &hFFFF0000

[SylvainTV]

You can also use the RGBA or RGBA256 helper function which returns a integer from 4 R G B A values. In Visual Basic 2008 I believe you have to create an instance of the TVGlobals class and use the RGBA/RGBA256 function from there.

Don't forget to set alpha to 1.0 or 255, else you won't see anything on screen.

[uncasid]

System.Drawing.Color.Red.ToArgb()

This will convert to the hex format.