FREE: Color Tool

[RizlaUK]

Hey guys, i made this quick app to help me keep track of my colors for various projects and thought id share it.

there is not much to it, you can select a color from the color dialog and save it to the database (pick color)

or you can get the color from anywhere on the screen (grab color), just click the button and then click on the area of screen where you want to grab the color, there is a zoom feature (thanks to Intrigued) but it needs a cross hair added (im working on that )

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[mindstitchdr]

This is cool, thanks RizlaUK!

[CyberRBT]

Cool. And ... i needed a tool just like this. Thank You !

[Dermot]

Just what I needed too. Nice job.

[Intrigued]

I have updated the EXEZoom tool (a separate .exe actually) to include a Crosshair now.

I have posted to this thread:

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/sho...227#post101227

Nice job here RizlaUK with this tool, very useful and thanks for sharing!

[RizlaUK]

Thanks for the positive comments guys

Thank you Intrigued for the exe, now my tool is compleat

updated with the croshair (deleted original file)

http://www.box.net/shared/gqoz222ljf

[CyberRBT]

@ RizlaUK:
@ Intrigued:

G R E A T !!!

[Intrigued]

No problem on the update.

I noticed when using this application on Vista, when I click the Close button the application closes appruptly, with just the windows error dialog coming up.

Your's is not the only one. I have seen a couple other applications and plugins fair just the same. :(

[RizlaUK]

dam, a bug...lol

could that be because in not closing the database on shutdown (just remembered about that)

i'll sort that out and upload (yet) another update a bit later, see if it fixes it

Edit:

yeah...that tool uses a fair few plugins so (for me) it would be quite hard to bug track as i dont yet have vista

color dialog
sqlite
timer plugin
and a couple of dlls i made

i'll try with the close database thing and see what happens

[CyberRBT]

What are you using to display the color picker? You may need to create a quick DLL to display one if you're using a plug-in.

[RizlaUK]

yeah, you had some trouble with that dident you.......good point

i'll make one tomoz

edit...

soz, im useing worms free color dialog plugin

[mwreyf1]

Thanks RizlaUK!

One suggestion.

A LOT of people I know (mostly males) are color blind. Myself included.

Would it be possible to make this app color blind friendly?

Basically just add one additional field that would display the color name as well.


If so, here is a great site to get the needed names based off of their HEX/RGB value.

http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorspottable.html

[RizlaUK]

Thanks for the suggestion mwreyf1, but im not realy sure i have the time to do that,

it would take me weeks/months to reference all knows colors (within the dialog) and name each one, i would need to build a database that would contain 100.000s of names/colors etc

if you was willing to build the database i would gladly add it to the app

[Dermot]

Would be nice to be able to delete colours and pallets.

[RizlaUK]

yeah i will add a couple of delete buttons tonight

i originally only made this for my own use but it turned out so well i thought id post it,

i will add the buttons and see if i can squash that vista bug