精彩控件源码（4）－－Office 2003 Color Picker

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Introduction

While working on a project with an Office 2003 look, I needed a color picker with the exact look and feel of a Windows 2003 application. So, I've created one.

Using the code

The project has three controls that are available for use: OfficeColorPicker, ComboBoxColorPicker and ToolStripColorPicker. The first two controls are ToolBoxItem controls and therefore using them is as simple as dragging the control from the toolbox to your form. The third control is derived from ToolStripDropDownButton and will be discussed later in this article. All of these controls have a Color property to get or set the selected color of the control. Also, they have an event called SelectedColorChanged that occurs when the selected color of the control changes.

OfficeColorPicker

This control holds all of the colors and functionality for color picking. It can be used modeless in the application by this code, where this is a Form or any other container:

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// Creates new instance of the OfficeColorPicker,
// adds it to the form control.
// Note: you may use OfficeColorPicker(Color)
// to start with a specified color.

OfficeColorPicker officeColorPicker = new OfficeColorPicker();
this.Controls.Add(officeColorPicker);

Of course, the better way to open the color picker is as a pop-up, using the other two controls provided.

ComboBoxColorPicker

This control derives from System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox to s