Piknik - my full screen color picker • Hacker News Board

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#21

Post by MattProspect19 » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 4:59 PM UTC

Thank you! This is awesome and extremely useful. Seriously, thank you for this.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#22

Post by biilly » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 5:22 PM UTC

It's fun. Now if I could lock in text styles it might even be useful.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#23

Post by jh3 » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 5:22 PM UTC

Without reading the entire bottom bar on the site, I was kind of assuming one of the color codes would be copied to my clipboard once I clicked on the screen to lock it.

Still very cool though, good job.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#24

Post by jianshen » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 5:32 PM UTC

This is fantastic, especially in full screen chrome. I'd love to hear the inspiration behind why you decided to build this.

+1 Bonus Points for the subtle faux color gradient in 'Piknik'

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#25

Post by Keyframe » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 5:37 PM UTC

RoyG wrote: post #20

Keyframe wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HSL (Hue Saturation Luminosity) - bring your mouse all the way down to bring saturation to 0% or close and then scroll down to bring luminosity down to black or up to white.

Ummm, sorry but that's not correct; it is Hue, Saturation and Lightness. You are confusing luminosity with lightness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity

I stand corrected then. It's not really that important anyways.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#26

Post by araneae » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 6:23 PM UTC

Only one major problem I see; you can't "hold" any colors that are under the hex or rgb values, because if you click there it copies the values instead. But of course that's a trade off, because that's a cool feature to have.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#27

Post by rntz » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 6:44 PM UTC

I'm not able to scroll. No scroll bar appears, page-down and page-up don't work. chromium-7.0.517.41 on linux. Anyone else have this problem? Am I missing something?

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by icegreentea » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 7:01 PM UTC

rntz wrote: post #27

I'm not able to scroll. No scroll bar appears, page-down and page-up don't work. chromium-7.0.517.41 on linux. Anyone else have this problem? Am I missing something?

Think you need to use the scroll wheel on your mouse.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 7:17 PM UTC

rntz wrote: post #27

I'm not able to scroll. No scroll bar appears, page-down and page-up don't work. chromium-7.0.517.41 on linux. Anyone else have this problem? Am I missing something?

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Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

#30

Post by jw84 » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 7:24 PM UTC

Love using this with my Magic Mouse.