Freestanding Color Picker Programs
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I do. In my tool chest are dozens of tools that are of my own devising, because I either found nothing publicly available, or the available tools were deficient in some way. Once upon a time, I even published some of them, but nobody seemed to care about them, so most now remain private. A handful remain online in a small GitHub repository that I created as a reference/resource repository for use with the packages in my other repositories. Though they got into that kit because one or more build scripts requires them, many of these tools are generally useful command-line tools that are in some way better than the stock system tools they replace.
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Interesting take on the sharing principle. :thumbsup: I've got several that I use at least once a week or more. The latest is an FTP client, because as you mention, I couldn't find one that did everything I wanted. Another would be a sql restore utility that can be started with a right-click of a .bak file. (this one saves me the most time per week) I've considered sharing but am reluctant due to company policy. I suppose it could be reasonably argued that these tools were mostly developed after hours and on weekends...as utility apps they don't directly contribute to company revenue. Explaining to the boss that you spent 4 hours on a cool little utility that might save you 10 minutes a day is a conversation I'd rather avoid. Instead, I can be super-productive, get the jobs done on time and have plenty of leisure time! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I met one at the Stuhr Museum in Nebraska. I was there for a BSA merit badge thing, and that place is so freaking cool! Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer : Home[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
Brisingr Aerowing wrote:
I met one at the Stuhr Museum in Nebraska. I was there for a BSA merit badge thing, and that place is so freaking cool!
Was that for one of the Citizenship merit badges? As an Eagle, I earned all of them, and learned some interesting things for each of them.
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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Interesting take on the sharing principle. :thumbsup: I've got several that I use at least once a week or more. The latest is an FTP client, because as you mention, I couldn't find one that did everything I wanted. Another would be a sql restore utility that can be started with a right-click of a .bak file. (this one saves me the most time per week) I've considered sharing but am reluctant due to company policy. I suppose it could be reasonably argued that these tools were mostly developed after hours and on weekends...as utility apps they don't directly contribute to company revenue. Explaining to the boss that you spent 4 hours on a cool little utility that might save you 10 minutes a day is a conversation I'd rather avoid. Instead, I can be super-productive, get the jobs done on time and have plenty of leisure time! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
kmoorevs wrote:
Explaining to the boss that you spent 4 hours on a cool little utility that might save you 10 minutes a day is a conversation I'd rather avoid. Instead, I can be super-productive, get the jobs done on time and have plenty of leisure time! :laugh:
I might not want to work for your boss. Let's see, that's 10 minutes per day on tedium that would be better spent on new work, so you've recouped your investment in the first 24 days.
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I do that too - a lot. Although, I haven't written a command-line tool in quite some time now. I wrote a little dialog-based app that I clone for most things now. Mostly because I have a drag-and-drop edit control that I use all the time and it makes the UI very easy to use.
Is this D&D edit control something around which I could create such a tool?
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Is this D&D edit control something around which I could create such a tool?
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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Probably. I found it at this site. There's a D&D combobox too which can be useful. I made them work in 64-bit unicode mode also. If you don't want to deal with that then let me know and I will try to send them to you, somehow.
Rick York wrote:
Probably. I found it at this site. There's a D&D combobox too which can be useful.
What happened to the URL?
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In case you are interesting in technical deep discussions concerning colorimetrics, I will be very happy and available. It Looks like I'm becoming more and more a Dinosaurier in this field, after the big chemicals gave up to investigate more in this field :( :)
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
I just noticed that I neglected to acknowledge your offer to discuss colorization in greater depth. For now, I'll pass; although the topic has some appeal, I have specific interests, such as, e. g., selecting a contrasting color from the color wheel.
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Today, I went in search of a freestanding color picker that can generate RGB color codes. My search yielded two excellent choices. Pixeur, available at https://pixeur.en.uptodown.com/windows/download, is a small standard Windows program that essentially mimics the color pickers in Microsoft Office (and the one that is hidden in Windows 10 unless you are editing a high contrast theme. RoseLT Color Picker is a Modern (UWP) app, available in the English-language South African department of the Microsoft Store, at https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/p/roselt-color-picker/9nq8c70flp0r, is a bit more fancy, and fills the whole screen to accommodate its many output options and its display of a list of the standard named colors. I like both, and I'm not sure which of the two I'll use most. What I know for certain is that both, or ones like them, deserve a spot in the toolkit of every serious software developer or graphic artist, for use when the color pickers in your favorite tool are out of reach.
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See and [PLAY](http://www.paletton.com)!!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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See and [PLAY](http://www.paletton.com)!!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
digimanus wrote:
In Word you can only store 2 bytes.
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David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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digimanus wrote:
In Word you can only store 2 bytes.
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David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
word is in c#
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In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.