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Color Picker

A color picker is a control which allows the user to select a color for a particular field in a record and comes with 19 predefined colors.

Color Picker

Figure 1 - Color Picker Control

Variations

None.

When to use

A color picker can be used in places where a user would prefer to select values in the form of colors such as selecting the color of the timelines in a Gantt Chart or to denote specific groups in a box-matrix.

How to use

Use the color picker within the Field control inside the client model. The control can be used within any field including those that reside inside groups and lists.


field <field name> {  
  colorpicker {  
    ...  
  }  
}  

Limitations

The control can only be used with Colorpicker constants.

Keywords

None.

Properties

Below is a list of properties that can be used to customize the control.

defaultemphasis | editable

Example

Below is an example of a read-only color picker.


field lineColor{  
    colorpicker{  
        defaultemphasis Colorpicker4 = [true];  
        editmode = [false];  
    }  
}  

Example 1 - Read-only color picker control