The PALETTEINDEX macro accepts an index to a logical-color palette entry and returns a palette-entry specifier consisting of a 32-bit COLORREF value that specifies the color associated with the given index. An application using a logical color palette can pass this specifier, instead of an explicit red, green, blue (RGB) value, to GDI functions that expect a color. This allows the function to use the color in the specified palette entry.
COLORREF PALETTEINDEX(
WORD wPaletteIndex // index to palette entry
);
The return value is a logical-palette index specifier.
The PALETTEINDEX macro is defined as follows:
#define PALETTEINDEX(i) /
((COLORREF) (0x01000000 | (DWORD) (WORD) (i)))
Windows NT: Requires version 3.1 or later.
Windows: Requires Windows 95 or later.
Windows CE: Requires version 1.0 or later.
Header: Declared in wingdi.h.
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