New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

Manindra29

New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

in Library and Tool Development • 2 years ago

Hi guys,

I've released my first processing tool - Color Selector Plus (project page)

An advanced color selection and management utility for Processing.

The latest version can be downloaded here.
You can store colors in palettes and save it as a file. Also, grab any color from the screen using the screen color picker.

Do check it out and report any bugs. Would appreciate your feedback.

Hope you find it useful.

Thanks!

UPDATE: The download link above is for version 1.0.2. There have been some major bug fixes. UPDATING to the latest version is a MUST for previous users.

UPDATE (06/10/2011): Color Selector Plus has now been updated to version 2.0.0 . This version has more bug fixes and now all the text fields are editable too! Mac OS X UI inconsistency has been improved as well.

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BlueThen

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

This definitely have some potential.

My issues:

The window itself is way too tall. It takes up a huge part of my 1280x720 monitor.

Also it doesn't seem to work correctly with 2 monitors. The color picker seems to pick up pixels from my left monitor when my cursor is in my right monitor.

Manindra29

Re: Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

Hi BlueThen,

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into the issues. You're right, currently only single monitor is supported. I'll be adding multiple monitor support soon.

Manindra29

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

Hi,

I added a minimize button to the color palette, so the window size can be reduced when needed.
The direct download link is here.

Here are some screen shots:

cedrickie..

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

This is definitely a great addition to the existing color Selector. Especially the fact that you are able to select colors anywhere on the screen.

PhiLho

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

Ah, I never noticed the PDE has a color selector!
Judging from the screenshots, this tool could be as well a standalone product. Perhaps you should add buttons to paste the selected color into the current caret position in the PDE. So we can write color(|), launch the tool, and get color(#CC2B99). Faster and less fuss than using the clipboard.
Or even generate color-related code (color, fill, background, stroke, etc.).

thomas.di..

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

i really like your tool, great work. im already using it.

my requests would be:

a slider to set the alpha value of the color. although its not that hard to add the alpha by hand to a hex-color.
if i try to choose a dark color in the colormixer, the cursor (cross) starts to jump somehow. the lower (darker) i get in the color box, the more it jumps.
would be convenient, to change the rgb/hsb/hex values by hand too.

cheers, thomas

Manindra29

Re: Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

I added two of the features you requested. :) Regarding the alpha value slider, I couldn't be sure how to fit it into the existing UI. Could you suggest something?

Manindra29

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

Really appreciate the suggestions. Will try to implement them soon and improve things further. And do report any bugs.

Thanks

jeff_g

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

CPU on my Mac goes nuts with this tool installed. Don't have to have the Color Selector window open for it to be effected. Just launching Processing with the tool installed has CPU at 120% (out of 200%), without the tool .4%.

thomas.di..

Re: Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

... same on winXP. i was wondering what's causing this extreme CPU-load, but didn think of the tool.

Manindra29

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

Thank you jeff_g and thomas_diewald for reporting this issue. There indeed was a major bug in the on-screen color picker code which was increasing the CPU load. It has been fixed now. I've tested it on Win 7 and Win XP. Do update to v1.0.2 available here and let me know if there are still issue. Update is a MUST for previous users. Previous versions are now deprecated.

jeff_g

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

Nice! That fixed the CPU issue. Here are a couple minor cosmetic things to look at that surface on the Mac.

First image, note the offset of the color picker window. It looks too low and off the the right. The bottom and right get clipped.
Also note the text areas are not sufficiently long enough to display 3 numbers, clipping the first digit.

Second picture clicks the little pull up arrow to hide the palette, which hides the buttons but shows a clip of the top of the palette.

Manindra29

Re: Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

This looks really weird. Weren't Java programs supposed to be cross-platform? The component alignment and size isn't consistent. The separator lines are not visible either. Thanks for reporting this. I'll be testing it on a Mac and making the changes soon.

bustup

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

This tool had my Processing app running on 200% cpu without running any sketches.

I'm on Mac OS X, 10.7.1.

Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Manindra29

Re: Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

The earlier versions did have some issues which was increasing the CPU load. The bug has been fixed in the latest version.

Manindra29

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

2 years ago

Color Selector Plus has now been updated to version 2.0.0. This version has more bug fixes and now all the text fields(RGB, HSB and Hex value) are editable like Processing's original Color Selector. Mac OS X UI inconsistency has been improved as well. Try it out guys. Your suggestions/bug reports are welcome. :)

cvdc_mari..

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

1 year ago

Hello

Is there a way to implement the screen color picker in my processing sketch?
I want to write a program that automatically grabs the color from different spots on my screen.

Manindra29

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

1 year ago

I achieved that by basically taking a screenshot of a square region of the screen centered about the mouse pointer. You can take a screen grab and the color selected by the mouse will be the center pixel of this image. This tool is open source. You can check out ZoomScreen.java which handles the color picking. The important method is getScreen() defined at this part of the code.

Cheers!
M

Manindra29

Re: New Processing Tool - Color Selector Plus

11 months ago

This tool has been updated for Processing 2.0b6. This version is no longer compatible with older versions of Processing.

Multi-monitor support has been added for screen color picker.

ColorSelectorPlusTool-2.0.1

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