I thought for a moment that they had the order of COLORREF wrong, but I just double-checked the definitions of the GetRValue, GetGValue, and GetBValue macros. Y

I thought for a moment that they had the order of COLORREF wrong, but I just double-checked the definitions of the GetRValue, GetGValue, and GetBValue macros. You are correct, writing that DWORD into memory would put them in RGB order not BGR.