Colors combobox truecolor support

[honkinberry]

With a combobox set to style 4 for Colors, it has a less than desirable truecolor support.
One has to click on Windows, and go through that ancient Windows Custom Color dialog, which is just very foreign to a CAD user.
Over in a Grid control, the Truecolor cell style goes right to the CAD truecolor selection, which is great.

For a Combobox set to Color, I'd prefer if the "Select Color..." option went to (acad_truecologdlg x) instead of (acad_colordlg x).
Hopefully that's easy and quick!

Have a great weekend and Thanksgiving!

--J

[honkinberry]

We really need Truecolor support for the Combobox.
I'd really like to avoid what looks like the only alternative - engineering a replacement for a Combobox, with some sort of Grid that pops down, so that we can display the colors.

Is there any chance the 'Select Color...' option from a Style 4 Combobox can display the standard Truecolor selection?  And further, then display and return truecolors?  Currently, if one does use the archaic Windows Custom Color interface to select a truecolor, the Combobox just displays the nearest indexed color.

Is there anything I can do to assist with this?

--J

[owenwengerd]

You can make a custom color combo with your own "Select color..." item that opens the true color dialog.

[honkinberry]

That would totally work!  How would I go about doing that?
I'm guessing I would fire DeleteItem for the last two, and add my own Select Color at the end?

--J

[owenwengerd]

Yes, exactly. Then handle the Selected event. I'm not sure it will work with the color combo style, but it's worth a try. If it doesn't work with the color combo style, a plain combo style will work for sure.

[honkinberry]

Well, unfortunately it doesn't work.
And a plain combobox completely defeats the purpose, as the colors are not visible.
I'll just use a Picturebox and a Label.

Anyway, thanks for chiming in.
Have a super day!

--J