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With the ColorSelector tool you can select or pick or enter colors in 5 different ways:
- The dropdown box in the upper left allows to select from a list of predefined and named colors (among them all system colors and HTML-colors). If among the predefined colors others have the same color value as the selected color, those are shown in the list below (see above picture).
- The button "HSV selector" opens a HSV color chooser.
- The button "RGB selector" opens the system's RGB color chooser.
- The button "Pick!" turns "picking" mode (see below picture) on. ColorSelector then acts as a color picker. A part of the desktop is shown in a magnifiying window and the color under the cursor is shown and the color can be picked.
- It also is possible to enter a color value in direct. In the upper two textboxes RGB or HSV values can be entered. With the RGB values either (to your choice) the hexadecimal representation, the hexadecimal html type representation or the decimal representation can be altered.
After a color has been selected, its color value is shown in RGB and HSV color model representation. The color itself is shown in the upper rectangle.
Additionally from the selected color (the base color) other colors are derived:
- A more shady or lightened (named as "dimmed") variant. The "Dim"-factor can be entered in the textbox right from the "Dim it"-button. This button also immediately does a recalculation of all variant colors.
- A contrasting color. The method to be used to calculate this contrasting color can be selected from the second dropdown box.
The color values of the derived colors and the base color are displayed in the lower half. The derived colors themselves are shown in the lower rectangle: the background of the lower rectangle has the base color. The upper one of the enclosed rectangles has the dimmed color as background, the lower one has the contrast color as background.
The color values of all colors (including the name of the base color, if available) and their grey values may be copied to the clipboard by pressing the "Copy" button. The method to be used for calculating the grey values can be selected from the checkbox: methods following the ITU or the CIE standard are available.
The archive contains a file "UserDefinedColors.txt". Please copy this file in the same directory the tool is in. In this file the user can define color name/value pairs. The color selector utility loads this file on program start and makes the colors in this file available for selection in the dropdown box of the predefined colors. They get the prefix "USER_" prepended.
Dependencies: uses some Windows APis, which should be present on all 32 Bit Windows systems (WIN 2K and above).
