How return built-in constant value from its name

[pbornemeier]

Cell A1 contains the string: rgbAliceBlue

rgbAliceBlue is a built-in VBA constant with the numeric value of 16775408

In the VBE Immediate window if I enter ?rgbAliceBlue it shows the value: 16775408

Application.Evaluate("rgbAliceBlue") returns Error 2029 - Type mismatch

How can I extract the numeric value of a built-in excel constant using the name of a built-in excel constant?

 

[Fluff]

How about

val(rgbAliceBlue)

 

[pbornemeier]

val(rgbAliceBlue) does return the numeric value, but when I retrieve the value of a text string in Range("A1") it is processed as a string and Val("rgbAliceBlue") returns 0

I want to retrieve the name of a color from A1

A1 = rgbAliceBlue

which is a text value

In code
x = Range("A1") .Value
or
x = Range("A1") .Value2
or
x = Range("A1") .Text

all result in x having the value of "rgbAliceBlue" (a string)

and Val(X) returns 0, not 16775408 (the value of the constant: rgbAliceBlue)

Is there a function (or code) that will return the numeric value of a built-in constant using its name as input?

 

[Fluff]

I missed the part about it being in A1.
And have no idea how to convert a string to a constant

 

[Fluff]

From what I can find you either need to set up a select case (or similar) or use this
https://stackoverflow.com/questions...-representation-of-a-constant-into-a-constant

 

[Rick Rothstein]

I am pretty sure you cannot retrieve the value directly as, to my understanding, all constants are replaced by their value at the time the code is compiled (which is before the code itself physically executes), so the running VB code has no knowledge that a constant name was used originally and, hence, does not know that rgbAliceBlue is the name of a constant nor that it has an associated value.

 

[pbornemeier]

Thank you both for your suggestions and comments.

I had thought there might be some way to use the functionality of the immediate window since it returns numeric values when evaluating the built-in constants.