COleVariant to COLORREF

[_Flaviu]

Hi all of you. How can I convert COleVariant to COLORREF ? I have used CMFCPropertyGridColorProperty to store a colorref into CMFCProperrtyGrid, but I need to retrieve correctly the colorref value, because CMFCPropertyGridColorProperty have been filled with COleVariant ... I get the value just like this:

CMFCPropertyGridProperty* pProp = m_wndPropList.FindItemByData(TRM_PROPERTYGRID_COLORWINDOW);
pProp->GetValue();

but GetValue get me COleVariant, and I have there COLORREF value ... how can overcome this ? I get the following error:

error C2440: 'return' : cannot convert from 'const COleVariant' to 'COLORREF'

Thank you.

[David Crow]

Since COLORREF is a DWORD, can't you just access the ullVal member of COleVariant?

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[_Flaviu]

Thank you, it works !

[_Flaviu]

Working late in night, tired, I didn't notice that CMFCPropertyGridColorProperty has proper methods for set/get colors: CMFCPropertyGridColorProperty Class[^]