How do I change the title of ColorDialog?

Question

I\'m spinning up a ColorDialog component in WinForms to let the user select a particular custom control\'s chart\'s background color and foreground color. Both configuratio

Answer 1

Unfortunately, changing the title of the common color picker dialog is not possible. A possible solution is to find or create a color picker control to host in a dedicated form which, of course, you could assign the appropriate title. Or you could adopt the Office style of color picking in the form of a combo box.

EDIT

Inspired by Rob's answer, I found the following solution. It involves inheriting from ColorDialog, snatching the HWND from the HookProc method and calling SetWindowText through P/Invoke:

public class MyColorDialog : ColorDialog
{
    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
    static extern bool SetWindowText(IntPtr hWnd, string lpString);

    private string title = string.Empty;
    private bool titleSet = false;

    public string Title
    {
        get { return title; }
        set
        {
            if (value != null && value != title)
            {
                title = value;
                titleSet = false;
            }
        }
    }

    protected override IntPtr HookProc(IntPtr hWnd, int msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
    {
        if (!titleSet)
        {
            SetWindowText(hWnd, title);
            titleSet = true;
        }

        return base.HookProc(hWnd, msg, wparam, lparam);
    }
}