Comments on: Final-ish Silverlight Color Picker Utility

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:52:35 +0000

A nice design I must say, if you are looking for a control more like the ones in Microsoft Word – where the colors are predefined and you just need to select it – you can have a look at this control as well http://endofstream.com/creating-custom-colorpicker-in-silverlight/

Also the button controltemplate could be combined with the example on this page, because I really like the design here

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:40:07 +0000

One more suggestion, it would perhaps be better to have it as a Custom Control rather than a User Control.

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:38:23 +0000

I was looking at your picker, I have couple of suggestions to make it better..

1. The color picker should be dealing with the Color Type and not SolidColorBrush
2. The SelectedColor property should be a Dependency property, to allow binding
3. The UI should also work backwards, as in when set a color the UI markers should set themselves up

Cheers

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:05:11 +0000

The control is working with WPF?

By: greattall1

greattall1 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:50:41 +0000

I’m having trouble databinding to the SelectedColor property as well. I’m using the control inside of a datagrid in a template column, and when I switch to the color picker i get a AG_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE error, even though it is being bound to a SolidColorBrush.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:42:55 +0000

I’m having the same issue as GEB. Excellent component, just not sure how to wire it so I can set the color in code.

Also, when you type a color into the text box, it doesn’t update.

I’m going to look into all of this later, but those are my only two issues with this great component!

By: GEB

GEB — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:18:46 +0000

I have a question regarding the color picker. If I set the SelectedColor property immediately after the control is loaded (my object already has a color assigned), it updates resultCanvas.background, but it does not actually show this selected color in the color canvas. Any way to change the color picker in a way that when the selectedColor is set by the calling application, it sets the resultCanvas.Background AND the color canvas to the same selected color?

By: phucnd

phucnd — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:48:38 +0000

Good! I like it!
Thanks!

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