Recently there have been many requests for a KryptonComboBox control. Well wait no longer because here it is! Actually you will have to wait because the next full release will not occur until around the end of the year. But at least you know it is in the pipeline. With yesterdays additional of a KryptonTextBox we are starting to round out the free Toolkit quite nicely.
Here you can see the KryptonComboBox on the left side in various different operational states, the right hand side has a couple of standard ComboBox controls. Showing with the popular Office 2007 Blue color scheme.
And now in the Professional System color palette…
The background and text colors are restricted to just solid colors in the same way as the KryptonTextBox, because of limitations in the way the underlying Win32 control can be overridden. It does have one useful addition though, an Active state that is defined as True when either the mouse is tracking over the control or the control has focus. When Active you can alter the appearance using the StateActive appearance properties. So if you want to highlight the control when it is active, so that users can easily see which control has focus, you can achieve it quickly without writing any code.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
great job!
but, when the color palette is Professional Office 2003 i think the border should have the color ProfessionalColorsTable.MenuItemBorder (most likely the controls will be placed in a KryptonPanel and it will look odd if the border color is gray).
another but is the DropDown. this should have a gradient color (like the ToolStripComboBox)
September 28th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Ooops, now i see that you used the System palette. Forget the previous post…
October 1st, 2007 at 10:22 am
If the release will be out by the end of the year, can we get our hands on the beta?
October 1st, 2007 at 10:38 am
I will issue a Beta or a CTP before the end of the year, just so I can get some early adopters to test out the new controls. But that will not be for several weeks anyway.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:27 am
Phil, my application needed a nicely rendered combo box and I was forced to do some nasty hacks to make it fit it with the rest of our app.
Seeing a KryptonComboBox just made my day. Thanks so much. Looking forward to the release/beta!
November 5th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
The combobox can be rounded border?
The border color can be changed?
November 5th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Yes to both.