How to get the system accent color for UWP-Apps?

Question

I'm trying to get the Accent Color of a user in a UWP-App for Windows 10. I know how to get it in C#, but I develop my apps in WinJS. So does anyone knows the WinJS equivalent for var color = (Color)Application.Current.Resources["SystemAccentColor"];?

It would also be nice, if I could Access this Color with CSS. I found some hints, that color: Highlight; would be the solution, but this gives me only a blue and not the Accent Color.

Thanks alot.

Answer 1

you can use WinRT API to do that : Windows.UI.ViewManagement.UIColorType enumeration provides all accents colors. You can make something like :

var uiSettings = new Windows.UI.ViewManagement.UISettings();
var rgba = uiSettings.getColorValue(Windows.UI.ViewManagement.UIColorType.accent);
var cssColorString = "rgba(" + rgba.r + "," + rgba.g + "," + rgba.b + ", " + rgba.a + ")";