Color History

Updated on Sep 24, 2025

The RadColorEditor control enables you to keep track of the previously selected colors through a set of properties.

• PreviousColor: This property is of type Color and provides access to the last selected color.

• ColorHistory: This property exposes a collection of all previously selected colors.

  XAML

  	<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
  		<StackPanel.Resources>
  			<telerik:ColorToBrushConverter x:Key="ColorConverter" />
  		</StackPanel.Resources>
  		<telerik:RadColorEditor x:Name="colorEditor1" Width="400" Height="220" HistoryCapacity="5" />
  		<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding ColorHistory, ElementName=colorEditor1}" Height="20" Margin="8 0">
  			<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
  				<DataTemplate>
  					<Border Width="20" Height="20" Margin="5 0"
  							Background="{Binding Converter={StaticResource ColorConverter} }" />
  				</DataTemplate>
  			</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
  			<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
  				<ItemsPanelTemplate>
  					<telerik:RadWrapPanel />
  				</ItemsPanelTemplate>
  			</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
  		</ItemsControl>
  	</StackPanel>

• HistoryCapacity: This property is of type int. It gets/set the number of previously used colors to be stored in the ColorHistory collection.

See Also

• Structure
• Getting Started
• Color Mode