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Color Dropdown for PropertyGrid

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Topic: Color Dropdown for PropertyGrid

Posted By: gshawn
Subject: Color Dropdown for PropertyGrid
Date Posted: 16 June 2005 at 6:46pm

The Color property in its current state is very awkward to use, because it causes a modal dialog to pop up in order to choose a color. Most property grid implementations allow for a more intuitive, inline color dropdown instead.

Is it possible for you to implement the existing office style color selector/dropdown functionality (see http://www.codejock.com/products/toolkitpro/tour_28.asp - http://www.codejock.com/products/toolkitpro/tour_28.asp ) into the PropertyGrid control?

Thank you.

edit: added hyperlink

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Posted By: gshawn
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 4:24am

FYI if anyone is interested in the status of this request, I am happy to report the following update:

Solution:
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Hello,

Thank you for this suggestion, we moved it to TODO list for 10.0 release.

Now this feature available only for MFC package.

Thank you

Thanks CodeJock, I think this will make Color properties a lot more attractive.

Posted By: JamesH
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 11:57am

Is the color picker dialog only going to be exposed via the property grid color fields or will the dialog be available for non-property grid use? (eg. pop the dialog up from a menu selection)

Posted By: gshawn
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 3:47am

Hi guys....... I guess this did not make it in to v10 after all :)

I'm currently building a CSS editor and would like to use the PropertyGrid control. Having this color dropdown feature would make it much nicer than the ugly modal Window color dialog!

The following 2 enhancements would also be very useful for most projects:

Support to display HTML or CSS colors (#rrggbb or #rgb)
Ability to add custom "named" colors, e.g. "Fushia #ff00ff"

Thanks! You guys rock and the Suite is awesome!

Posted By: gshawn
Date Posted: 03 August 2006 at 5:14am

Sorry to bump this up once more... Have there been any updates on this request?

Thanks again.

PS: After the new site update, screenshots of the desired functionality are now located at http://www.codejock.com/products/controls/tour_first.asp - http://www.codejock.com/products/controls/tour_first.asp and http://www.codejock.com/products/controls/tour_20.asp - http://www.codejock.com/products/controls/tour_20.asp .

Posted By: gshawn
Date Posted: 18 October 2006 at 3:50am

I still love you guys, even thought you keep ignoring this request.

Please reward my patience... it's now been 16 months, and I still need this feature just as badly! :)

Thank you!!!

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 1:07am

Hi,

Something was added in 10.3.1. So we not totally ignore you :)

    Dim ItemColor As PropertyGridItemColor
    Set ItemColor = Category.AddChildItem(PropertyItemColor, "ToolbarColor", &HAA00FF)
    ItemColor.EditorStyle = ItemColorPopup

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: gshawn
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 4:01am

That's fantastic, thank you very very much!

Posted By: gshawn
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 4:04am

also, the new extended color picker looks great. Keep up the good work! :)

Posted By: Fabian
Date Posted: 20 October 2006 at 10:51am

Hello

Yes it looks good ... but labels are not translated in the language resources!!! and - how can we set the 'Automatic' color?

Thanks a lot

Fabian

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Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) version 16.2.3

Platform: Windows 7 (32bit)

Language: Visual Basic 6.0 / SP6