Support for system colours

We are migrating our GUI to CodeJock controls to benefit from the modern look and feel and great controls such as the PropertyGrid. However, I cannot find a way to change the functionality of the colour picker to include system colours.

We have a separate colour-picker we could use (although would prefer to use the CodeJock in-built style) by calling from pgMyPropertyGrid_InplaceButtonDown(... and setting Cancel to True, but we then cannot retrieve the colour from Value as it appears to translate system colours to RGB.

Is it possible to add our own small control (ocx) rather than a button into a property grid item? - This would be our preferred solution as we can keep the same look and feel for this control as our previous (but limited) implementation (See below for screen shots).

Alternatively, I could do this with an enumerated list and addiitional in-place button, but cannot find out how to change the background colour of the inplace button (We want the colour preview feature)

Thanks,
Simon

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Thanks for your reply Aaron,

"In ValueChanged event value of Item.Value is long (only Item will show RGB)"
We are using VB6 where all colours including system colours are represented by a value of type Long. System colours are enumerated as negative numbers eg:&H8000000F& and API calls are available to convert to RGB and back so the property grid could manage this if it didn't ignore system colours.

"You could use a dropdown button and calculate Item position / size and show your control (see VB sample Propertygrid where MenuItem is used for showing dropdown menu)"
I have tried this and with some success - the problem is we use the scroll bars and I have not found an event that traps the scrolling, so it looks very strange when you scroll, I haven't given up with this yet though although I want avoid using a timer! Other complications are that categories being collapsed will need the control hiding as we want to leave the control visible for the preview colour.

"There's no property to change the backgroundcolor but you could use an enumerated Item (with a list of System colors) and add Icons as colors (like the combobox in VB IDE) see also propertygrid sample where icons are added in combo."
This is a great suggestion - I will look into this as I was not aware I could add icons to the enumerated property lists - I might need to render the icons with the colours selected on the host machine though.

Its a shame CodeJock have chosen not to support system colours with their colour picker

Thanks again,
Simon

Very nice! Thanks for this Simon.