Color Sector Tool - proposal and or request

jas0501

Color Sector Tool - proposal and or request

in Library and Tool Development • 1 year ago

I think the color selector falls a bit short and would like to enhance it to provide a cut & paste of the user selected color command, instead of just the hex code.

I looked at the tool's source and attempted to edit the file on my machine but I appear to be a bit clueless as the the required setup for editing the tools and testing it.

Any guidance on the steps to follow to edit, test, and submit for inclusion would be appreciated.
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Below is a rough mock up of my proposed enhancement, showing the command dropdown. Also the supported color commands and their syntax. I'm not sure how to show the alpha effect and where the alpha choice would go, if at all. Fewer buttons would be needed without alpha.

Note: For the color command the (color) button would not be selectable or not be presented.

One would cut & paste the composed command line at the bottom.

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cedrickie..

Re: Color Sector Tool - proposal and or request

1 year ago

i know there was a much more complex color selector tool already created by someone posting it here in the processing forum. But i actually cant find it anymore. But it already had some of your suggested features. It seems not to be listed on the processing tool page as well. Will try to find it... maybe someone else knows it though

Makio135

Re: Color Sector Tool - proposal and or request

1 year ago

https://forum.processing.org/topic/new-processing-tool-color-selector-plus-29-8-2011

http://makio.free.fr/

cedrickie..

Re: Color Sector Tool - proposal and or request

1 year ago

thats it. thx!

jas0501

Re: Color Sector Tool - proposal and or request

1 year ago

That one has some nice features:

color picker
palette of used/active colors.

My thinking would be the the color selector tool within Processing IDE would/should be Processing-centric and provide the available syntax of the Processing commands. Tailored more toward the Processing neophyte.

My roughed out is short those nice features (the picker and the active palette) and the following to provide full Processing color capabilities:

gray scale slider
colorMode range support
alpha assignment via slider
alpha display showing transparency

I also think the buttons might be clearer with the selected command included. For example for fill

o fill(value1, value2, value3)

instead of

o (value1, value2, value3)

kylestetz

Re: Color Sector Tool - proposal and or request

1 year ago

weird! I just wrote a color picker sketch yesterday. it accomplishes several of the goals on your list. I wasn't planning on publishing it, but hey why not?

the textbox at the bottom allows you to type in a string with modifiers... when you hit the copy button:

it will copy the string to your clipboard with numbers intact. there's also a copy button for the active swatch palette color. it even saves the swatches you've got in there!!

unfortunately it is a .pde sketch and this is just about the limit of my ability as a programmer at the moment... I'd love to turn it into a tool, so if anyone is interested in collaborating I'm happy to share. I'm thinking there could be a button that pastes the string into your sketch within the PDE. that would be awesome.

source code is here: http://kylestetz.com/colorPicker/

I'll post this in Exhibition as well.

-kyle

scratchis..

Re: Color Sector Tool - proposal and or request

1 year ago

One thing you might want to add is a checkbox instead of more radio buttons for alpha.

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