Setting CustomColors in a ColorDialog

Question

Custom color set in the color dialog are supposed to be set to {Blue, Blue} using the following code:

colorDialog1.CustomColors = new int[] { System.Drawing.Colo         


        

Answer 1

You need to use OLE colors. The simplist way to achieve this is using the built in ColorTranslator object, e.g.

colorDialog1.CustomColors = new int[] { 
                                        ColorTranslator.ToOle(Color.Blue), 
                                        ColorTranslator.ToOle(Color.Red)
                                      };
colorDialog1.ShowDialog(); 

If you need to convert from HTML colors, you can also use the ColorTranslator.FromHtml method, e.g.

colorDialog1.CustomColors = new int[]
                                {
                                    ColorTranslator.ToOle(Color.Blue), 
                                    ColorTranslator.ToOle(ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FF0000"))
                                };