Changing Color Picker

[juderosen]

Basically, I use Windows, and the system color picker sucks. I wish I had the Linux color picker. I realize this plugin uses the system color picker, but I would like to see an option to pick which style color picker this plugin uses, if that is possible, of course.

[zakdances]

+1 on this. I use OSX, but a universal photoshop-style color picker would be great for all 3 platforms (OSX, Linux, and Windows).

[DESIGNfromWITHIN]

+1 Needs a color picker with hex values...

[Tyree]

+1 Agreed. The Windows color picker is horrid! I'd love to see some integration with something like http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

Not only would you have a much nicer color picker with hex, but you could stay in editor and sample colors from other places on your screen.

[juderosen]

Sorry. I accidentally closed the issue. It is reopened.

[juderosen]

Updating so the issue isn't closed due to neglect...

Progress on this issue is not very good.

[weslly]

It is totally possible to change the Windows colorpicker. Both Linux and Mac versions use external colorpickers. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience developing Windows apps to create a better colorpicker for it. I the early days of this plugin, I used PyGTK's colorpicker on Windows, which looked like the one on Linux, but it was quite heavy and slow.

I'm leaving this issue open until someone sends a pull request or when I have enough time to install a Windows VM and try to develop it.

[juderosen]

Fair enough. I'll work on it, though I am also not very familiar with developing Windows apps. Furthermore, I'm more of a Ruby person than a Python one, so I might try something in C or C++.

[juderosen]

Maybe, if it's not to slow, we could just emulate the mac color picker.

EDIT: This doesn't seem feasible.

[weslly]

As far as I know, it's not possible to (easily) port Cocoa apps to Windows.

[juderosen]

I'm running into a lot of road blocks with Windows.

Pure Python

@weslly, what happened when you used the PyGTK colorpicker on Windows? How slow was it? Maybe there's a way to make it work.

C-like

There are a bunch of C#, C++ and (maybe) C colorpickers to choose from. Maybe if one could be properly integrated with Python....

JavaScript/HTML/CSS + Python

Perhaps we could run a simple web colorpicker in a python gui, using webkit or something. pywebkitgtk, pythonwebkit.

[xtcsvirus]

Here is not the bad list of color pickers we can use: http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/02/5-best-screen-color-pickers-for-windows.html Some of them are really nice!

[Tyree]

Any progress or thoughts on this one? Every month or so I go googling for a good ST color picker under Windows and there's nothing well-integrated with ST. This package is well-integrated, but the Windows color picker SUCKS. No fault of this package, but unfortunately, it makes Color Picker all but worthless on Windows. Here's another external color picker to throw into the mix: http://www.color-tools.com/ A good start with this one, but still not as integrated as I'd like. Wish I knew how to code this stuff! I'd help! :-D

Thanks!

[ctf0]

a way around for windows ,maybe u could add an option where the user can select the exe of the color picker he/she have ,something like Pixeur which have everything u need + the hex ,or maybe make like a hook so when the default CP is called ,the other opens instead.

[weslly]

The windows color picker was already changed for a better one (see #44). I'm currently trying to fix some bugs on linux version before the new release.

[ctf0]

okey cool.

[weslly]

Does anyone here knows C#? I found a nice ColorPicker component for windows, with the source code.

https://github.com/weslly/ColorPicker/pull/44#issuecomment-43469642