I love the color picker (awk version)! That is a great little hack which should probably come standard. One thought: it would be even cooler if one could select text that was a color like #00ff00 and have the color picker open with that color selected. For those of us who need translating *to* colors as well.
I love this program... the power of Cocoa and Unix together at last... - Eric
PS. I like the key/gear icon.
PPS. Yes, icons are something everyone can have an opinion on (I was alluding to the bike shed piece when I wrote that). On the other hand, a lot of people on this list really like the program and want to contribute in their own way. Some of us can hack Perl syntax files, some of us can be wiki gardeners, others of us can show our affect by contributing visual ideas. There's More Than One Way To Contribute To It. As long as we know to back off at the end and let Allan make the decision...
On Nov 25, 2004, at 17:13, Eric Hsu wrote:
One thought: it would be even cooler if one could select text that was a color like #00ff00 and have the color picker open with that color selected. For those of us who need translating *to* colors as well.
Not that this is the same, but do you know Pixie from the development tools? It has the ability to "lock" the view and then one can click the magnified pixels to see the RGB/HSV value.
It also has a "copy color to clipboard". Although what it does is place the Objective-C code to create the corresponding NSColor object onto the clipboard (as a string).
Speaking of which, is there any program which actually put a real color on the clipboard? For beta 6 I've added support for dropping colors onto TM and wanted to do the same for pasting, but I have yet to find a program which actually store colors on the normal clipboard.
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:32:41 +0100, Allan Odgaard allan@macromates.com wrote:
Speaking of which, is there any program which actually put a real color on the clipboard? For beta 6 I've added support for dropping colors onto TM and wanted to do the same for pasting, but I have yet to find a program which actually store colors on the normal clipboard.
Not sure exactly what you mean, but the Art Director's Toolkit (comes with Powerbooks--well recent ones at least) will let you drag and drop colours. Dropping it only Terminal.app changes the colour of the background; dropping it onto TextEdit.app changes the colour of the foreground.
--M.
Op 25-nov-04 om 17:13 heeft Eric Hsu het volgende geschreven:
I love the color picker (awk version)! That is a great little hack which should probably come standard. One thought: it would be even cooler if one could select text that was a color like #00ff00 and have the color picker open with that color selected. For those of us who need translating *to* colors as well.
Made a new version that does exactly that. It opens the color picker with the selected color, modify it a bit, press OK and it will overwrite it with the new color. If you have your caret at the end of a color, it still shows it in the color picker, but doesn't replace it. Depending on how you look at it, this is a bug or a feature. My glass is half full today, and see it as a feature making it easy to make new colors based on other colors in your html document. If you are nowhere near a color, it just behaves as before.
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