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Geek Culture / Colour Picker Tool

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 17:15
Does anyone know of a nice colour picker tool which sits there nicely in the system tray (by the clock) and does bugger all until you click on it and ask it to pick a colour on the screen? It'd be fab if it also supported HSV and RGB colour models

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Deathead
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 17:16
Use photoshop. And if you want the forums colour just print-screen it and get colour then.

NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 17:17
There's an exe in the dark basic directory somewhere that brings up the colour picker from Paint.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 17:20
Thing is - Photoshop is a pretty hefty (not to mention expensive) program for a colour picker

I've also been using this method recently however I got fed up booting up a huge program to get the RGB value of a pixel on the screen...

I've found ColorCop which is quite cool... Does a really nice job. Doesn't support HSB though...

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bitJericho
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 17:21
You can find this kinda stuff in an ie or ff toolbar I bet.. I'm unaware of a background app that does only this, but I'm sure one exists somewhere, or if a vb guru wants to take this on, I bet it'd be a 30 minute project

Baggers
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 17:22 Edited at: 31st Aug 2007 17:26
Standard 'google is your friend' comment:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=freeware+windows+color+picker&meta=

First result looks fairly promising.


...ahh, my verbosity is punished...not sure if this will run in background...sorry!
That'll learn me!

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Ok does not minimize to system tray but is so swish I think it's worth the taskbar space.
Thanks for helping me find another weapon for my freeware aresenel

M.I.A is pending
Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 17:29 Edited at: 31st Aug 2007 17:31
As fantastic as google is - it only tends to work for what you want if you know the keyphrase "password" to unlock it

I'll look into your suggestion now. I've emails the guy who makes ColorCop to ask if he can add HSB color model to it...

Edit: ColorPic is quite nice - shame it doesn't systray itself!

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 17:54
http://www.colorschemer.com/studio_info.php

This is quite nifty... Just costs $50....

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Diggsey
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 18:03 Edited at: 31st Aug 2007 18:08
I'll make one if you want Just say (or MSN me as I might forget to look at this thread)

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If you do want me to make one, how do you want it to 'return' the colour values?

edit2:
And it would need the .net framework runtimes installed

David R
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 18:47 Edited at: 31st Aug 2007 18:47
http://www.dirfile.com/getcolor__color_picker.htm
best I could find...


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 19:28
Diggsey - I think you could get quite popular if you made a decent, small and feature rich freeware colour picker

DavidR: Thanks for the link, but thats a pretty basic app. I like the way they claim it does "HEX, RGB and HTML"... which are actually all the same thing (especially HEX and HTML).

I ended up buying a license for that Colour Schemer Studio - its got some FANTASTIC tools in it - you guys should grab a copy and give it whirl on its 15 day demo.

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spooky
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Posted: 31st Aug 2007 21:20
On that site is also a freebie tool called ColorPix that has an option to minimise to system tray and does all those color options. Pretty nifty it is too, and FREE.

Boo!
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Posted: 1st Sep 2007 00:16
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I'll make one anyway Maybe I should make a thread where people can ask what type of free utility they want and I could make some of them Unfortunately, it's almost the end of the summer holidays for me, and I have to go back to school so I won't get much time

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2007 23:53
Here it is

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bitJericho
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 08:35 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 09:09
Errors on startup (on vista ultimate x64) and otherwise doesn't appear to work when I continue.

more info*, it sits in the taskbar and works, but I can't figure out how to select a color, when I click the pick color option, nothing appears to happen. The show color option appears to work, but I think this also is buggy, screenshot attached.



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dark coder
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 09:00
Other than the small error at startup "Could not find file 'G:Clear.cur'." it works fine here, pretty cool too.

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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 11:10
Sorry, I was in a rush when I posted it I can't say anything about Vista, but the image Jerico2day showed is what it's supposed to look like. It says <unknown> because you haven't picked a colour yet. If the clicking pick colour doesn't work, have you tried double clicking on the icon instead? Also, have you tried running in compatibility mode for win XP? Here is a fix for the missing file issue dark coder pointed out.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 11:23
Diggsey - that's a really nice tool!

Suggestions:
1) Don't make the screen go bright pink when you go to Pick Color mode... Its kind of off putting (Basically, the entire screen goes pink however the picker does pick-up the colour that's MEANT to be at that pixel).

2) Could you make the values in the Show Color section editable? That way we could edit the RGB or HSV values and have everything else update along with it

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Diggsey
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 11:29
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Are you using windows 98? If so, it doesn't support transparent windows, which is why the program goes pink. On XP, it is completely transparent. I will make the values editable

Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 11:39
I'm using Windows XP Pro. Its a HP Compaq desktop thingy with Intel Core Duo 2 and Intel Graphics (Intel Q965/Q963 Express Chipset Family).

To give the hex - the whole screen goes "#FF00FF"

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Diggsey
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 11:53 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 11:54
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#FF00FF is set as the transparent colour on the form, so the whole form has that colour, and it goes invisible. (Or it does here!) If you hover over a colour that is #FF00FF, the whole screen will go beige instead, and beige will be the transparent colour (Until you move away from the pink) The only way my program can work is by using this transparency feature, so I don't know what I can do about it The property is called 'Transparency Key' so I will search a bit on google, see if it's a known bug, and what the fix is...

Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 12:19
Interesting...

I opened MS Paint and drew a block using #FF00FF and then used your tool to pick that colour. The whole screen went pink and when I hover over the MS Paint pink block then the picker icon appears with that pink, but no beige is to be seen...

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Diggsey
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 16:57 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 17:03
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That was another bug Now I've fixed it, so it DOES go use beige instead of pink as transparent when the colour is pink. Also, you can now edit all of the values in the colour viewer.

I will google the transparency problem

edit:
What screen depth are you using?

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 17:19 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 17:23
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Downloading new compile...

Diggsey - you rock! This is a really nice tool coming on here!!

I'm still getting the pink issue, but the beige thing is working now.

Suggestions for a feature... Could the values that are editable (and linear, like R, G & B and H, S & V) have some kind of slider and/or a keyboard method for shifting (eg, if you press up and down on R, G, B and H it inc/dec's in 1's but on S and V it does it in 0.01's or something?)

This is a FANTASTIC tool!!!

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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 17:47
OK, I will add that BTW, did you try clicking on the bar on the left that shows you the colour?

Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 17:55
ooo nice touch! Shame the Windows colour picker is so limited...

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bitJericho
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 20:46
tried compatibility mode and still won't do anything when you try to pick color, in vista Ah well...

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