I just did a quick test and you definitely get a color picker dropdown.
Are you messing with the Editor attribute on your property?
See after my sig for the code...
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using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
namespace colorpicker
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Form1.
/// </summary>
public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
private System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid propertyGrid1;
/// <summary>
/// Required designer variable.
/// </summary>
private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;
public Form1()
{
//
// Required for Windows Form Designer support
//
InitializeComponent();
this.propertyGrid1.SelectedObject=new foo();
}
/// <summary>
/// Clean up any resources being used.
/// </summary>
protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
{
if( disposing )
{
if (components != null)
{
components.Dispose();
}
}
base.Dispose( disposing );
}
#region Windows Form Designer generated code
/// <summary>
/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
/// </summary>
private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.propertyGrid1 = new System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid();
this.SuspendLayout();
//
// propertyGrid1
//
this.propertyGrid1.CommandsVisibleIfAvailable = true;
this.propertyGrid1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
this.propertyGrid1.LargeButtons = false;
this.propertyGrid1.LineColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.ScrollBar;
this.propertyGrid1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
this.propertyGrid1.Name = "propertyGrid1";
this.propertyGrid1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(292, 266);
this.propertyGrid1.TabIndex = 0;
this.propertyGrid1.Text = "propertyGrid1";
this.propertyGrid1.ViewBackColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Window;
this.propertyGrid1.ViewForeColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.WindowText;
//
// Form1
//
this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(292, 266);
this.Controls.Add(this.propertyGrid1);
this.Name = "Form1";
this.Text = "Form1";
this.ResumeLayout(false);
}
#endregion
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the application.
/// </summary>
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Application.Run(new Form1());
}
}
class foo
{
private Color _color;
public Color Color
{
get{return _color;}
set{_color=value;}
}
private int _smee;
public int Smee
{
get{return _smee;}
set{_smee=value;}
}
private float _flub;
public float Flub
{
get{return _flub;}
set{_flub=value;}
}
}
}
"Frank Rizzo" <no**@none.com> wrote in message
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I added a PropertyGrid control to my form and set its SelectedObject
property to one of my objects which exposes a lot of properties of type
System.Drawing.Color. The System.Drawing.Color display fine, but they
don't have a dropdown where I can select a new color, like in the VS.NET.
How can I help the PropertyGrid display dropdowns for System.Drawing.Color
properties?
Thanks
