Color Box

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The color box is a drop down edit, which displays a palette color picker in its popup window that allows the user to quickly select a color.

Properties and Events

The color box provides the following properties:

HasMoreColorsButton - specifies whether the color box should show a “More Colors…” button below the palette color picker or not.
SelectedColor - indicates the currently selected color. When the value of this property changes, the SelectedColorChanged event is fired.

Palette - specifies the palette of the color picker shown in the popup drop down of the color box. NOV provides the following predefined color palettes:

Palette	Description
WebSafe	A palette that contains the Web-safe colors.
MicrosoftPaint	A palette that contains the colors of the default Microsoft Paint palette.
MicrosoftOffice2003	A palette that contains the colors of the default Microsoft Office 2003 palette.
MicrosoftOffice2007	A palette that contains the colors of the default Microsoft Office 2007 palette.
Custom	Represents a palette with custom defined colors.

Code Example

The following piece of code demonstrates how to create a color box, change its palette and handle its SelectedColorChanged event:

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NColorBox colorBox = new NColorBox(); colorBox.Palette = new NColorPalette(ENColorPaletteType.MicrosoftOffice2007); colorBox.SelectedColorChanged += new Function<NValueChangeEventArgs>(OnColorBoxSelectedColorChanged); private void OnColorBoxSelectedColorChanged(NValueChangeEventArgs args) { NColorBox colorBox = (NColorBox)args.TargetNodeNode; }

Color Box Example

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NColorBox colorBox = new NColorBox();
colorBox.Palette = new NColorPalette(ENColorPaletteType.MicrosoftOffice2007);
colorBox.SelectedColorChanged += new Function<NValueChangeEventArgs>(OnColorBoxSelectedColorChanged);

private void OnColorBoxSelectedColorChanged(NValueChangeEventArgs args)
{
    NColorBox colorBox = (NColorBox)args.TargetNodeNode;
}