[Closed] Getting/Setting the Max Color copy/paste values

do you mean – is it possible to get/set color clipboard used with the colorpicker?

I’ve managed to do it only this ugly way.

(
(
local source = ""
    source  = "using System;
"                
    source += "using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
"        
    source += "
"
    source += "namespace WinAPI
"
    source += "{
"
    source += "class PInvoke
"
    source += "{
"
    source += "[DllImport(\"user32.dll\")]
"
    source += "public static extern IntPtr WindowFromPoint(System.Drawing.Point p);
"
    source += "}
"
    source += "}
"
            
    csharpProvider = dotnetobject "Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider"
    compilerParams = dotnetobject "System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters"
    compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.dll");
    compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.Drawing.dll");        
    compilerParams.GenerateInMemory = on
    compilerResults = csharpProvider.CompileAssemblyFromSource compilerParams #(source)
    
    global dll = compilerResults.CompiledAssembly.CreateInstance "WinAPI.PInvoke"
)


try (destroydialog X ) catch ()
rollout X "" (

    colorPicker cp "color1"
    
)
createDialog X pos:[100,100]



DialogMonitorOPS.Enabled = false
DialogMonitorOPS.UnRegisterNotification id:#showHWND

fn catchRCMENU = (
    
    local hwnd = DialogMonitorOPS.GetWindowHandle()
    
    if hwnd != undefined do (

        local ptr = ::dll.WindowFromPoint (dotnetobject "System.Drawing.Point" (mouse.screenpos.x-1) (mouse.screenpos.y-1))
        
        local data = windows.getHWNDData ptr
        
        if data[4] == "ColorSwatch" do (
            
            global swatch = (dotNetClass "Autodesk.Max.GlobalInterface").Instance.GetIColorSwatch (dotNetObject "System.IntPtr" ptr)
            
            DialogMonitorOPS.Enabled = false
            DialogMonitorOPS.UnRegisterNotification id:#showHWND
                        
            swatch.SetColor ((dotnetclass "System.Drawing.Color").fromArgb 255 128 64) 0
            
            format "              Acolor: [%,%,%]
" swatch.aColor.r swatch.aColor.g swatch.aColor.b
            format "system.drawing.color: [%,%,%]
" swatch.Color.r swatch.Color.g swatch.Color.b -- [B,G,R] ??
        )
    )
            
    true
)


DialogMonitorOPS.Enabled = true
DialogMonitorOPS.RegisterNotification catchRCMENU id:#showHWND

)