[graphiteman]

Is it possible to access the floating window color picker in Carbon? And for that matter, is it possible to access the color well control in Carbon?

[graphiteman]

Does anyone know how to do this?

Now that I think about it, accessing the system Font panel would also be very useful.

[honeydew]

I've got a color picker related question to tack onto this thread. Has anyone written an HTML custom color picker in Cocoa? Just a simple RGB picker that uses hex values would be nice. Bonus points for identifying "web safe" colors ala Photoshop.

[graphiteman]

*bump*

Does anyone know about this stuff?

[lindberg]

I wrote a quickie -- not polished at all -- Cocoa color picker a while back (one that shows hex values for RGB actually). They're not too hard to write, but I was having a really strange problem in that inside some apps it made the color picker window almost the full width of the screen, and wouldn't let me resize it down any. I haven't played with it much since. I'm not sure if this is an Apple bug or my problem. I ought to revisit it though.

Stone Design had a freeware application for the old MacOS X Server 1.2 that did much the same thing (better I'm sure) called Web Colors (http://www.stone.com/WebColors/WebColors.html), but I don't think it's been updated for MacOS X.

[graphiteman]

Does anyone know if the font and color panel can be used in Carbon?

[proceedNeXT]

I don't think so.

Both relie on other Cocoa classes to get their jeb done.

[Angus_D]

For the Colo(u!)r panel, there is a Carbon one which works just fine

As far as the Font panel goes, you'll have to construct your own, I think (yet another thing the Toolbox API failed to provide, I guess).

You will not be able to use the Cocoa ones in Carbon, I don't think. Especially not the font panel, as that is intertwined with the Cocoa text services.

[graphiteman]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
<STRONG>For the Colo(u!)r panel, there is a Carbon one which works just fine

As far as the Font panel goes, you'll have to construct your own, I think (yet another thing the Toolbox API failed to provide, I guess).

You will not be able to use the Cocoa ones in Carbon, I don't think. Especially not the font panel, as that is intertwined with the Cocoa text services.</STRONG>

Dang. I guess I'll have to wait until the Carbon API is improved by Apple.

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by graphiteman:
<STRONG>Dang. I guess I'll have to wait until the Carbon API is improved by Apple.</STRONG>

Why's that, then? Just use Cocoa!

[graphiteman]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
<STRONG>

Why's that, then? Just use Cocoa! </STRONG>

Because I don't have a year to port my app (Cranberry) to Cocoa from REALbasic.

I would if I could.

[Angus_D]

Getting the CARBON colour picker is very easy in RB. I forget what the exact call is, but it's something like:
dim c as color
c = SelectColor()

or something equally simple. I can't be bothered to fire up RB and check, because I paid for 2.1.2 and don't want to pay another few hundred $$ to use their slow, bloated crap on OS X

[graphiteman]

I just wanted to use the Cocoa one because it is much more astecially pleasing.
To get the carbon one:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>
Dim B As Boolean, C As Color
B=SelectColor(C)
</font>[/code]

On a ccompletely unreleated subject, do you know how to set and clear the little dot in the close box of a window to indicate the document is changed?

[edit: bad ubb code]

[ 08-25-2001: Message edited by: graphiteman ]

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by graphiteman:
<STRONG>On a ccompletely unreleated subject, do you know how to set and clear the little dot in the close box of a window to indicate the document is changed?</STRONG>

From RB, no idea. There probably isn't a call. You could find the toolbox call to do it and pass a window.windowRef to it, though.

[graphiteman]

Any idea what that toolbox call would be, or at leat where it would be located in the carbon dcumentation (Window manager, for instance)?