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Label Control - Setting the background colour

Setting the background colour

Normally, you will just set the background colour at design time, using the properties window, however, you can also set the background colour by changing the BackColor property:

Label1.BackColor = ColourCode

Visual Basic uses Hexadecimal code to specify control colours, for example &H80000006& is black. Unless you want to learn hexadecimal code you can use the QBColor Function.

Label1.BackColor = QBColor(Number)

Where number is one of the following:

Number

Colour

0

Black

1

Blue

2

Green

3

Cyan

4

Red

5

Magenta

6

Yellow

7

White

8

Grey

9

Light Blue

10

Light Green

11

Light Cyan

12

Light Red

13

Light Magenta

14

Light Yellow

15

Bright White

The following code sets the background colour of Label1 to Red.

Label1.BackColor = QBColor(4)

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