Colour Picker Application

[wrack]

Anybody wants to test this colour picker I made..?

Register the DLL with following command at command line. U need to change the path accordingly. If you have previously registered the DLL then please unregister it and then DELETE it. After that copy the new DLL and then register it.

To Register
REGSVR32 "C:\ColourPicker\ColourPicker.dll"

To UnRegister
REGSVR32 "C:\ColourPicker\ColourPicker.dll" /u

then run the exe and u will get a colour picker.

To move use mouse.
Small movement use arrow keys.
Medium movements use Home, End, PageUp, PageDown keys.
Right Click or Escape to exit
Left Click or Enter to pick the colour on the screen.

The DLL is the COM DLL so u can use it from VB or VC++, Delphi or .NET(I guess). You don't need exe for ur self. You can use ur choice of programming language and develop ur own application as a host to talk to DLL and display or use the result.

Let me know to post the Specs for talking to DLL..!

You can pick 10 colours at a time. After you pick all 10 colours the app will exit automatically and show you ur Picked colours. It will not repeat the selection (for example if you choose any colour twice then it will be considered as 1 colour but on the display it will only shown once)

You can keep selecting more colours as u please and keep adding them to previous selection.

I assume that many members here are good with figuring out how to use an app so it's usage it left on you to play with. You can choose to copy only HEX value or RGB value or both to clipboard.

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for those who have a technical problem registering and unregistering the DLL do the following.

Create a folder on the root of your C: Drive called "ColourPicker"

Put all files u unzipped in it and then double click on Install.bat

If you have to unintall then double click on Uninstall.bat
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Post any suggestions here..!

Do u think that I should use have different approach in GUI..? If yes then let me know what could be more easier.

Get it from here

Cheers.

[Protocol]

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Warning: Do NOT download and run any compiled code that users post on VBF asking you to test. Always ask for the source code.

So with that in mind............

[wrack]

I knew that this is going to happen but I guess it's anyone's personal choice.

I have scanned it with Norton, McAfee, CA and no problems. So purely ur choice.

Cheers.

[Protocol]

lol....Damn!!!!

My plan didn't work... I was hoping that you would give in and post up the source code so that I could have robbed it and claimed it as my own...

Oh well....better luck next time I guess....

I've tried it... quite good... quite damn good indeed...
I'll give it 4/5... (Partly because I can't do better)....

[wrack]

Thanks

I was asking more of an improvement in user interface so it takes less space on the screen and more friendly.

Anyway my planning are to have it sitting in System Tray and execute the app from there.

Any suggestion.

Cheers.

[wrack]

Can I take that it is perfect..!

[JRSofty]

The app looks good. Feels ok not real happy with the rightclick and multi select functions. Of course I might just need some practice with it. Also you might want to label the output codes a little better.

Don't like having it off of my root C drive is there any place else where it could be?

Can you give me some info on using the Colourpicker DLL? and how it works. It seems to have only one subroutine.

[wrack]

You don't have to have it in C Drive. It was for those who doesn't know how to register and un register the DLL.

U can leave it anywhere u like and use it.

I will post the specs for using DLL later when I come back from the office.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Hmmm....

Why the DLL?

[krtxmrtz]

Quite handy.

[wrack]

Why the DLL..?

Bcos this code was developed for a company but is still my property and I can reproduce it only in COM DLL form. Legal contract mumbo jumbo.

[JRSofty]

Originally posted by wrack
Bcos this code was developed for a company but is still my property and I can reproduce it only in COM DLL form. Legal contract mumbo jumbo.

Well that makes perfect sense

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Originally posted by wrack
Bcos this code was developed for a company but is still my property and I can reproduce it only in COM DLL form. Legal contract mumbo jumbo.

Oh... so if I made a VB/API replica of your code and posted it here... it might be bad?

[wrack]

Not at all. I can't post it myself.

If u want to make ur own one. Go for it.

[wrack]

Can I ask mods to put this one in utility bank or I need to make more changes before I do. If no then what kind of changes..?

OK I think I am going to settle on this version then.

I have changed DLL interface to support VB6 aswell. It didn't before. So whoever has the old version should unregister it and then delete it.

So now I have tested it with,

VB6
VB.NET
Delphi 6
Delphi 7

It only has 1 function which returns String as a result in XML format.

To use it declare a variable of type String in the programming language u r using and then

Variable = PickColour <---- Function name

It will look like this.

<ColourPicker>
  <Colour>
  	<R>84</R>
  	<G>124</G>
	<B>255</B>
  	<HEX>#547CFF</HEX>
  </Colour>
  <Colour>
  	<R>255</R>
  	<G>212</G>
  	<B>11</B>
  	<HEX>#FFD40B</HEX>
  </Colour>
  <Colour>
  	<R>158</R>
  	<G>242</G>
  	<B>11</B>
  	<HEX>#9EF20B</HEX>
  </Colour>
  <Colour>
  	<R>255</R>
  	<G>123</G>
  	<B>17</B>
  	<HEX>#FF7B11</HEX>
  </Colour>
  <Colour>
  	<R>47</R>
  	<G>61</G>
  	<B>220</B>
  	<HEX>#2F3DDC</HEX>
  </Colour>
  <Colour>
  	<R>170</R>
  	<G>138</G>
  	<B>5</B>
  	<HEX>#AA8A05</HEX>
  </Colour>
</ColourPicker>

Use the xml result the way u want it.

New version is now available for download here

Hope this will be helpful to someone

Cheers