Xgui - A set of Photoshop-like color pickers

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Introduction

Bobi B has written a very cool Photoshop-like color picker (you can click here to see how cool it is), but since this is compiled into a DLL, it is very hard to use with existing MFC projects. I decided therefore to create a simple class to mimic CGTColorDialogDlg - but this time based on CDialog.

How to use it:

Very easy! Simply add the following code in the header file of the class where you want to display the Color Picker Dialog:

#include "GTColorDialogDlg.h"

And in the .cpp file:

CGTColorDialogDlg dlg
dlg.SetColor(RGB(0,0,255));
int nResponse = dlg.DoModal()
if (nResponse == IDOK)
{
    COLORREF crReturn = dlg.GetColor();
}

Technical Details

The Color Picker Dialog is constructed using the following classes:

1. GTColorWellWnd - (GTColorWellWnd.h, GTColorWellWnd.cpp)
2. GTColorSliderWnd - (GTColorSliderWnd.h,GTColorSliderWnd.cpp)
3. GTColorSelectorWnd - (GTColorSelectorWnd.h,GTColorSelectorWnd.cpp)
4. CGTColorDialogDlg - (CGTColorDialogDlg.h,CGTColorDialogDlg.cpp

The class inheritance diagrams are as follows:

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