What is the best way to pick a random brush from the Brushes collection in C#?
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06-07-2019 - |
Question
What is the best way to pick a random brush from the System.Drawing.Brushes collection in C#?
Solution
If you just want a solid brush with a random color, you can try this:
Random r = new Random();
int red = r.Next(0, byte.MaxValue + 1);
int green = r.Next(0, byte.MaxValue + 1);
int blue = r.Next(0, byte.MaxValue + 1);
System.Drawing.Brush brush = new System.Drawing.SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(red, green, blue));
OTHER TIPS
For WPF, use reflection:
var r = new Random();
var properties = typeof(Brushes).GetProperties();
var count = properties.Count();
var colour = properties
.Select(x => new { Property = x, Index = r.Next(count) })
.OrderBy(x => x.Index)
.First();
return (SolidColorBrush)colour.Property.GetValue(colour, null);
I suggest getting a list of enough sample brushes, and randomly selecting from there.
Merely getting a random colour will yield terrible colours, and you could easily set up a list of maybe 50 colours that you could then use every time you need a random one.
An obvious way is to generate a random number and then pick the corresponding brush.
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