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ColorCoder. Useful or not?
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Jan Van Boghout
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Dec 6, 2003, 06:07 PM
 
I made a quick app a while ago (for personal use), polished it up a bit and I wonder if this is something I should release and add to my official app list

What it does:
It puts a little icon in your menu bar



and when you click it, it shows a little utility window and a color panel, showing you the NSColor declaration and the hex color code for the picked color:



Download at http://www.macrabbit.com/macnn/ColorCoder.dmg and comment here
     
sushiism
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Dec 6, 2003, 06:14 PM
 
useful cos then i can access my libraries in the osx palette to put stuff in progs like illustrator that dont support it
     
CarbonG4
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Dec 7, 2003, 12:27 AM
 
Very cool man... only suggestion would be to make the color wheel in the menubar toggle the floating palettes on and off. As it is right now, it just brings the windows forward, but when clicked again does nothing -- would be cool if it would hide the windows again.

//Carbon


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Dec 7, 2003, 04:27 AM
 
if you also added a way to test color of other things on screen that would be useful

i mean, so you could go over an image on a webpage, and find out what color a pixel was or something

that would make it even more useful
     
Jan Van Boghout  (op)
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Dec 7, 2003, 04:53 AM
 
Originally posted by 11011001:
if you also added a way to test color of other things on screen that would be useful

i mean, so you could go over an image on a webpage, and find out what color a pixel was or something

that would make it even more useful
Carbon, download again for toggling

11011001, what do you mean exactly. Don't you mean the standard magnifying glass feature in all Cocoa apps? (the one left to the color well in the color picker window)
     
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Dec 7, 2003, 07:20 AM
 
ooooah, ha! it has it.

Ya, I meant the magnifying class thingy.
     
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Dec 14, 2003, 02:37 PM
 
thanks!
     
Diggory Laycock
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Dec 14, 2003, 06:45 PM
 
Nice.

Until now I was using exColour Which changes the colourWell as the colour is changed in the picker. Could you implement something like that?

[edit] whoops - my mistake - it does do that already.
     
Phoenix1701
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Dec 14, 2003, 11:02 PM
 
Very nice, and definitely useful, but I found a couple bugs... if you select one of the colors from the Web Safe Colors list in the Palettes pane of the color picker, the color codes don't agree -- if you copy #CCCCCC, for example, ColorCoder reports the color as #CFCFCF. Similarly, certain colors in the Developer palette return the very odd color code "#k000".
Also, it took me a while to figure out that clicking the menu extra again will close the palettes; it might be nice to have a "close" option on the main window instead of "quit" (which removes the menu extra).
Good work!
     
   
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