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Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#21
Quality program. Well worth the download and even a donation. I just opened kuler to poke around with it; I can definitely see this being a huge time saver on projects.

Any chance you will extend the clipboard capability so I can copy 4-5 colors at once?

Edit: To elaborate, I mean, have colors saved in some sort of list box or something so I can click them to get to my clipboard or something of that nature.

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#22

Thanks - I've been wanting something like this. One feedback idea would be to let me close the stay-on-top window with the keyboard instead of having to clicking the x or the eyedrop icon. It'd be great if hitting escape closed that window... so the workflow would be command-shift-p, get the color I want, then close the window with escape. Thanks for the app -

I've just been using cmd + h to hide the app once i've copied the color. Esc would be nicer, but hide works ok for now without having to use the mouse

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#23

Quality program. Well worth the download and even a donation. I just opened kuler to poke around with it; I can definitely see this being a huge time saver on projects. Any chance you will extend the clipboard capability so I can copy 4-5 colors at once? Edit: To elaborate, I mean, have colors saved in some sort of list box or something so I can click them to get to my clipboard or something of that nature.

Can you elaborate on that? If you could open a Github issue describing the functionality I'll do my best to make it in the next version.

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#24
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There seems to be some strange behaviour with dual monitors. I have a 27" iMac (2560x1440) and I have an external monitor hooked up (1920x1200) and positioned to the right of the main desktop. When I move the cursor around on the second monitor, the picker preview window stops tracking and updating when I move close to the top edge (maybe 100 pixels?) or the right (farthest) edge (at least 300 pixels there) of the mo…

Yeah, this isn't showing the preview of the second monitor (Lion), but it still captures the color. This is a GREAT app! Because it is open source, I can pick it apart and learn how to do certain programming things. Thanks author

There seems to be an issue with detecting the second monitor on certain cases. I'm looking into it but didn't find a solution yet.

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#25

Hi guys, I'm the author of that app. You can choose which format you want to save by default (hex or rgb) as well as hiding the color preview in the menubar through the app preferences. Please let me know if you feel like something is missing.

I only have a couple criticisms. One is that I wish the shortcut for copying to the clipboard were easier. cmd shift p takes two hands, so I have to take my hand off the mouse to copy the color.

The other is that the zoomed in preview probably shouldn't be antialiased as it makes it harder to see the individual pixels.

Other wise this is a really nice app, good work!

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#26

Quality program. Well worth the download and even a donation. I just opened kuler to poke around with it; I can definitely see this being a huge time saver on projects. Any chance you will extend the clipboard capability so I can copy 4-5 colors at once? Edit: To elaborate, I mean, have colors saved in some sort of list box or something so I can click them to get to my clipboard or something of that nature.

You could use Jumpcut: http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#27

Hi guys, I'm the author of that app. You can choose which format you want to save by default (hex or rgb) as well as hiding the color preview in the menubar through the app preferences. Please let me know if you feel like something is missing.

A screenshot on the homepage (not just the github page) would be great.

Nice icon by the way.

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#28

Hi guys, I'm the author of that app. You can choose which format you want to save by default (hex or rgb) as well as hiding the color preview in the menubar through the app preferences. Please let me know if you feel like something is missing.

I might be an outlier, but, I spent a few hours last weekend looking for a color picker that had CMYK support.

Although, maybe I'll send a pull request your way, if I find the time to add it in.. should just be a matter of colorUsingColorSpace: and {cyan, magenta, yellow, black}Components of NSColor and a quick addition to your NSColorFormatter.

(// edit: other than that, this looks pretty awesome.)

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#29

Hi guys, I'm the author of that app. You can choose which format you want to save by default (hex or rgb) as well as hiding the color preview in the menubar through the app preferences. Please let me know if you feel like something is missing.

Which license is this released under? I don't see any indication of anything other than this in the auto-generated XCode comments:

     //  Copyright 2011 DibiStore. All rights reserved.

Re: Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

#30

Hi guys, I'm the author of that app. You can choose which format you want to save by default (hex or rgb) as well as hiding the color preview in the menubar through the app preferences. Please let me know if you feel like something is missing.

What is the preferred way to report bugs?

I've just stumbled upon two:

1. when mouse cursor approaches top edge of the screen, preview stretches vertically so that it's still square, but pixels are twice as tall as they are thick. That's on an mbp5,5 running 10.7.1.

2. Cmd+Shift+p uses physical location of p key disregarding programmatically set keyboard layout. I've only noticed because I'm using Colemak.

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