Color selection

UserLS · Post by **UserLS** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:02 am

Is there any technical reason you are using non-standard color selection dialogs? The reason I ask, it is not the only place in our app, where user makes this kind of selection and it looks less than professional, if within the same app you have different dialogs for the same option. In general, we do try to stay with system default behaviors, since this is the most familiar way of doing things for the users. And again, we do need a way to let your system know, which custom colors our user has defined in other parts of the system and so, they have to be included into your color dialog. And this conversation has to be a 2-way dialog, so if I create a custom color within TChart environment, the same color must be available for me in the other parts of the system.

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:28 am

Hi UserLS,

We are using System.Windows.Forms.ColorDialog in Steema.TeeChart.Editors.ColorEditor. We use the System.Windows.Forms.ColorDialog for custom colours. The other colors, the colors which are shown by default, come from ColorPalette, which is a palette we create ourselves. Could you give us a link to the ColorPalette you think we should be using?

Thanks in advance.

UserLS · Post by **UserLS** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:08 pm

I would not have one! I would go strait to the system-standard color selection dialog. In your screens, anytime I click on a "Color" button I first see your color dialog (with your non-standard colors and non-standard behavior and an extra icon on the task bar - all of which I hate) and only if I click on a "Custom" button - then I get yet another pop-up dialog, which will allow me to create a custom color and then I can go back to your dialog, and so on... To many pop ups, too many clicks to select a color...

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:47 am

Hi UserLS,

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll add this to the wish-list to be considered for inclusion in future releases.