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ColorPicker.NET update

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Thanks to everyone who provided comments on the binaries that I released the other day. I spent a good portion of this evening cleaning up some problems that FXCop uncovered and got started on adding the features that some of you suggested. I should have another set of binaries ready to go by the end of this weekend along with a prototype of the desktop color sampling functionality that I've also been working on.

The following is a short list of the things that I hope to have done this weekend:

  1. Enable the HEX textbox so users can enter HEX values and obtain its RGB/HSB equivalents.
  2. Fix the glitch that Andrei mentioned.
  3. Change default application values so that the Hue field is the default field on startup.
  4. Serialize the application state to disk when the application is closed.
  5. Write the colors that are added to the color swatch panel to an XML file.
  6. Minimize to system tray.
  7. Fix some other random bugs that I've seen.
  8. Work on an icon!
  9. Finish cleaning up the code so I can release it.

If anyone has any ideas for a good name for this application, feel free to let me know. I think this deserves a much cooler name than ColorPicker.NET.

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  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2005
    My vote would be to stick with ColorPicker.Net...it does exactly what is says...it's hard enough keeping track of Microsoft's codenames as it is without inventing more obscure names.

    Great idea BTW!!

    IMHO.

    Best regards
    Steve
  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2005
    All those would be sweet (well, maybe not the systray thing, but that's personal preference). I was goofing around with an icon idea and came up with something that might work. It's not the best thing I've ever done, but it's not too bad either...

    http://images.krazyyak.com/palette.png
    http://images.krazyyak.com/palette.ico
    http://images.krazyyak.com/palette72.psd
  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2005
    Great little utility. Thanks.

    An idea.

    How about a color detector option in your utility to detect color from the sorrounding/a spot in another image/desktop? Not just detect a single pixel but an average based on a small area around the clicked pixel.

    Regards
  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2005
    Scott, those icons look good. I think I'll use them for now. Thanks!
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