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Old 05-02-2004
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MapPoint's Standard 45 Colour Palette

MapPoint has a fixed palette of 45 colours for user-defined pushpins and drawings (polygons, polylines, etc). Although you can pass it a colour in full 256*256*256 colour space, the closest colour in the palette will be chosen.
This is described in the help, and the colours are included in a bitmap that comes with a standard install.

Has anyone done any work with these colours? Eg. ways to organise them or perhaps produced a color selector dialog box?

I have the hex values of the colours listed out. Next I need to create a dialog box to manipulate them, but I'm trying to find some pattern or way of organising things! Perhaps there's an article for Eric in all of this?

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