[RESOLVED] Color Palette

[drdress]

Is it possible to see the different colors (when using the graphics class) in a palette somewhere? It's hard to choose from the names only (DarkCyan, IndianRed ect, what is this!? )

[The VBer]

Do you mean choosing colors at runtime? Or coding them in?

[drdress]

Coding them. I don't know how they look, I just have their names. I would like to correlate them. Otherwise I have to try each color sepreatly.

[The VBer]

You could just click on the form then look to the properties window. Just use something like the backcolor property. I think you'll want to look at the 'Web' tab. It gives you the name of the color and then a little picture of what it looks like.

[drdress]

I think you'll want to look at the 'Web' tab. It gives you the name of the color and then a little picture of what it looks like.

'Web' tab you say? That sounds like what I need. Where do I find this?

[The VBer]

This is where i was talking about.


The name shown there is the name you would use to code in the color to the program.

[NickThissen]

If you are using VS2010 you might want to look for an extension. I haven't looked actively, but there might be a simple extension available that displays the color in the Intellisense dropdown. I know there is an excellent example extension available that completely customizes the Intellisense dropdown, so I would be surprised if nobody had used it to create something like this.

If not, you can always give it a shot yourself I tried it but I don't know anything about WPF (the VS2010 IDE is made in WPF and so also the extensions must be) so the UI part of it was over my head and I gave up...

[drdress]

thanks for the tips! The Web tab worked fine.