Question : Setting Brush as a Hex Color

Hi,

I have a project where I'm trying to generate page titles on the fly.  The problem is that I have to set the color too.  I have Brushes.Black or Brushes. Orange at my disposal, but I'd really like to be able to set the font color by hex value.  Any suggestions?

Here's what I have so far...

    Bitmap objBMP = new Bitmap(490, 30);
    Graphics objGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(objBMP);
    objGraphics.Clear(Color.White);
    Font objFont = new Font("Arial", 16, FontStyle.Bold);
    objGraphics.DrawString(strText, objFont, Brushes.Black, 10, 4);
    objBMP.Save(Server.MapPath("~/images/title.gif"));

Thanks for any help

EJ

Answer : Setting Brush as a Hex Color

Pass the color returned by FromHtml() to the SolidBrush() constructor:

        Dim hexCol As String = "#294F96"
        Dim sb As New SolidBrush(System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(hexCol))
        ' use "sb"....
        sb.Dispose()

In C#:

        string hexCol = "#294F96";
        SolidBrush sb = new SolidBrush(System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(hexCol));
        // use "sb"....
        sb.Dispose();