How to open the CVI color selector popup?

[dietert]

In our application we are using text background colors as legends in many places. The user wants to click and use it like a color numeric control to modify the legend color. Can we operate the CVI color selector popup by program? We have no problem to create and place a color numeric control after the first mouse click, but how can we show the selector popup without an extra mouse click? Or should we post a fake mouse click through Win32 API?

[DanielMcchane]

This is a very tricky problem. You cannot get the color selector that you see in the .uir editor to appear on the screen during run-time. I was thinking of possible workarounds, and the only one I could think of was creating a panel with numerous textboxs that would have all the possible colors to select. I was able to dynamically create them within a panel. However, this poses some interesting problems. You have to dynamically create the callback functions for all 100+ textboxes you create, so that you could get the color attribute for each when a user clicked on them. Not an easy task to say the least. But that is looking like your best option. If you would like to view m project, just comment back, and I will post it for you. Thanks, and have a grea
t day.

Daniel McChane
Application Engineer
National Instruments

[dietert]

Thanks for your effort and i would indeed be interested to see and continue your project, as you offered. Let's hope in some future version of CVI we can invoke a ColorSelectPopup similar to the FileSelectPopup.