Office 2000 style colour picker By Shailesh Litake

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Introduction

This control is a simple modification to the "Color Picker" control By James White, which in turn is based off Chris Maunder's original Office 97 style Colour Picker.

The new code is a modification to the custom dialog box, which is infact a standard CColour dialog box. Here I have used a dialog based property sheet to choose standard and custom colours. I was hoping to capture the appearance of the color button that appears in some Windows dialogs, including the Display Properties|Appearance property page. The code is very straightforward, borrowed from the original CColourPicker and introduces new drawing code to match as closely as possible the Windows color picker.

References

• A sophisticated color picker control By Rajiv Ramachandran
• A color picker button By James White
• Office 97 style Colour Picker By Chris Maunder

Revision History

12 Jun 2002 - Initial revision