> Does anyone know the formula microsoft uses to calculate the RGB values
for
> the light and dark borders that surround windows boxes and other standard
> windows objects?  Like when the user selects the background color for
> 3d-objects in the control panel display properties, it automatically
> calculates related light and dark colors based on the background color and
> uses that for the borders.  I'd like to create similar looking windows
boxes
> in DHTML using javascript, but I'd like to know the formula to come up
with
> these border color values.

> Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.

> Does anyone know the formula microsoft uses to calculate the RGB values for
> the light and dark borders that surround windows boxes and other standard
> windows objects?  Like when the user selects the background color for
> 3d-objects in the control panel display properties, it automatically
> calculates related light and dark colors based on the background color and
> uses that for the borders.  I'd like to create similar looking windows boxes
> in DHTML using javascript, but I'd like to know the formula to come up with
> these border color values.

> Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.