ColorBox Programmatically select Tab

[pierre-jean]

I wish to programmatically select the "Basic" Colors Tab when the colorbox is opened, without hidding the other tabs

Thanks in advance

[Nadya | Tech Support Engineer]

Hello, Pierre-Jean,

To achieve this result, you should first get access to RadColorDialogForm which represents a dialog containing a color picker. Note that the RadColorDialogForm uses a UserControl for the color selector. It is of type RadColorSelector and allows the access to ActiveMode property so you can set the desired color mode.

Please refer to the following code snippet which demonstrates how to access the RadColorDialogForm and show the "Basic" color mode when the color box is opened. 

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    RadColorDialogForm colorForm = this.radColorBox1.ColorBoxElement.ColorDialog.ColorDialogForm as RadColorDialogForm;
    colorForm.Shown += colorForm_Shown;
}
private void colorForm_Shown(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RadColorDialogForm colorForm = sender as RadColorDialogForm;
    if (colorForm != null)
    {
        RadColorSelector selector = colorForm.RadColorSelector as RadColorSelector;
        selector.ActiveMode = Telerik.WinControls.ColorPickerActiveMode.Basic;
    }
}

I hope this information helps. Should you have any other questions, I will be glad to help.

Regards,
Nadya
Progress Telerik

[pierre-jean]

Thanks a lot
It works perfectly
Best Regards

[Ian]

I agree - good solution