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Hello,

Elegant DropDownColorPicker and Label have BackColor and UseVisualThemeForBackground properties.

Public Overridable Property UseVisualThemeForBackground() As Boolean

     Member of Elegant.Ui.Control

Summary:

If true a skinned background is painted; otherwise, it is filled with the color set in the BackColor property.

This works for Label, but not for DropDownColorPicker, please check it.

Thanks

Regards,

Robert Volesini

In order to set DropDownColorPicker background to a custom color, you can use the following code:

Elegant.Ui.SplitButton splitButton = dropDownColorPicker1.Controls[0] as Elegant.Ui.SplitButton;
if (splitButton != null)
{
   splitButton.UseVisualThemeForBackground = false;
   splitButton.Button.UseVisualThemeForBackground = false;
   splitButton.Button.BackColor = Color.Green;
   splitButton.DropDown.UseVisualThemeForBackground = false;
   splitButton.DropDown.BackColor = Color.Blue;
}

Thanks for your reply, however it doesn’t work:

’cpFontColor is "Elegant.Ui.DropDownColorPicker"



Dim splitButton As Elegant.Ui.SplitButton = CType(cpFontColor.Controls(0), Elegant.Ui.SplitButton)

Unable to cast object of type ’Elegant.Ui.GalleryDropDown’ to type ’Elegant.Ui.SplitButton’.



Dim splitButton As Elegant.Ui.GalleryDropDown = CType(cpFontColor.Controls(0), Elegant.Ui.GalleryDropDown)

’Elegant.Ui.GalleryDropDown’ is not accessible in this context because it is ’Friend’.

The DropDownColorPicker class supports two styles: drop-down and split-button. It seems that you are using the former. In this case you should use the following code:

Elegant.Ui.DropDown dropDown = dropDownColorPicker1.Controls[0] as Elegant.Ui.DropDown;
if (dropDown != null)
{
   dropDown.UseVisualThemeForBackground = false;
   dropDown.BackColor = Color.Blue;
}

note:

’ Assembly Elegant.Ui.Common, Version 3.8.0.0

Location: C:\Program Files\FOSS Software Inc\Elegant Ribbon\Bin\Core\Elegant.Ui.Common.dll

Name: Elegant.Ui.Common, Version=3.8.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3a2b400713aae6e0