#Color picker table wheel series

Here the Hue and Saturation is calculated based on the mouse position and the SelectedHSLColor is then updated causing part of the wheel to be redrawn. A saturation of 0 means the selected color is at the center of the circle, and a saturation of 1 means the selector's distance from the center is equal to the radius of the circle.Ĭalculating the selected color from the mouse position when the selector is moved around the wheel is done in SetColor(PointF mousepoint). The angle at which to place the selector is given by the Hue and the distance from the center is given by the Saturation. Get and Set the Color SelectorĬalculating the position for the color selector is done in ColorSelectorRectangle. In this loop, the coordinates are calculated, and the color is calculated by creating an HSL color and getting the Color property out of it. M_path.Add( new PointF(( float)x,( float)y)) I found that I cannot tell the difference between 1° and 5° steps, so I used 5° steps.ĭouble x = center.X + Math.Cos(angleR) * radius ĭouble y = center.Y - Math.Sin(angleR) * radius Since the color in the color wheel is represented by the angle (Hue), it is a matter of looping from 0 to 360 in ‘degrees’ steps. The points and colors are calculated in RecalcWheelPoints() which is called when the control is resized.

#Color picker table wheel series

This brush lets you specify a series of points with corresponding colors and a center point with the corresponding color. The drawing of the wheel is done using PathGradientBrush. The ColorWheel class is the actual color wheel control itself. I created the HSLColor class for wrapping the RGB-HSL, and with the help of Wikipedia, it was just a simple matter of typing in the formula.

The Color class already implements a GetHue, Saturation and Lightness ( Brightness), but unfortunately does not implement the Set method, so I needed a conversion from a RGB color to an HSL color.Īfter a bit of online searching, I came across this article in Wikipedia which explains the HSL color space and most conveniently also includes the equations for converting between RGB - HSL and vice versa. The color in the color wheel is represented by its hue and saturation value, where hue is the angle (0-360) with red being 0°, green 120° and blue 240°, and where the saturation is the distance from the center, where 0 (center) is white and 1 (on the circumference) is the fully saturated color.

Color control should appear as a combobox with the color picker in the dropdown container.

Opacity slider to adjust the opacity of the color.

Color wheel for selecting any arbitrary color.

Color picker (eye dropper) which lets you pick a color from anywhere on the screen.

Color table with some predefined colors.

After looking at a couple of different color pickers, I decided to go ahead and implement my own version which would meet these few requirements:

I needed a color picker for a project I was working on, and I wanted something different from the standard ColorDialog. There are already several articles here on CodeProject describing different types of color pickers, and here is yet another example.