ColorButton is a color selection control derived from
System.Windows.Forms.Button similar to the one used in MS Office applications. It uses the same colors like MS Office, including support for "Automatic" and "More Colors".
How To Use
Add a normal
Button to your Windows Form and set the
Text property to an empty string. Then manually change all occurrences of
ColorButton.ColorButton for this button in the source file.
ColorButton adds the following new properties:
Gets or sets the selected color.
System.Drawing.Color.Transparent is used for the "Automatic" color.
Gets or sets the string for the "Automatic" button. Setting this to an empty string disables the "Automatic" color feature.
Gets or sets the string for the "More Colors" button. Setting this to an empty string disables the "More Colors" color feature.
ColorButton adds the following new event:
This event occurs whenever the user changes the selected color. Use the
Color property to determine what the selected color is.
- Added keyboard support to color panel (thanks to Ignazio Di Napoli)
- Button handles disabled state correctly
- Button is drawn pushed, if color panel is visible