pychrom - a simple color selection and conversion tool for the tray

Xyne · 2009-04-27 18:13:44

Update
I ended up adding some features to this and have now packaged it and given it a project page. The screenshots should give you and idea of what it can do now. The info page has more details: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pychrom

main

color names combobox

zoom window

Last edited by Xyne (2010-04-19 04:02:10)

s26c.sayan · 2009-04-28 05:49:18

Really nice & useful little app!
Thanks!

praavDa · 2009-04-28 06:42:56

I was looking for something like that - thank You for sharing Xyne. Using this one and http://www.colr.org really speeds up my work with choosing the right colors.

I own You one:)

Chokkan · 2009-05-06 10:01:40

It's simply great!! Thanks for this.

Nezmer · 2009-05-06 15:04:36

You should abuse your power and add this to [community] .

markp1989 · 2009-05-06 19:00:10

very cool app

smartboyathome · 2009-05-06 19:28:53

Is there a way to turn off the tray for those of us that don't have one (ie, e17 users).

SamC · 2009-05-06 22:36:26

smartboyathome: all this does is open/close the gnome color chooser, which you can get standalone by installing gcolor2.

pressh · 2009-05-06 22:39:10

smartboyathome wrote:

Is there a way to turn off the tray for those of us that don't have one (ie, e17 users).

point taken, but you do know that e17 has a systray nowadays?

smartboyathome · 2009-05-07 03:03:13

pressh wrote:

smartboyathome wrote:
Is there a way to turn off the tray for those of us that don't have one (ie, e17 users).
point taken, but you do know that e17 has a systray nowadays?

I know that, it just doesn't work for me. Besides, I prefer to use Iiirk.

SamC wrote:

smartboyathome: all this does is open/close the gnome color chooser, which you can get standalone by installing gcolor2.

Ah, thanks!

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passbe · 2010-01-11 07:47:54

This is a great tool just what i need. Only thing that would make it perfect would be rgb + cmyk values. Great tool thanks.

Xyne · 2010-01-11 14:42:58

@passbe
I have hsv and rgb fields here above the hex field so I'm not sure what you mean by "rgb" values.
I don't know of any cmyk color selection widgets but if you find one, let me know. Pycrhom is just a standard gtk color selection dialogue attached to a tray icon and the code is very simple and suits my needs perfectly. It would not be that difficult to implement something more robust (e.g. emulate the gimp color selection dialogue) but that's way beyond the scope of this.

fogobogo · 2010-01-11 20:19:23

this.... is very cool.
one little thing though Xyne, could you add at least a short comment what the thing is about to your pychrom?

passbe · 2010-01-11 23:03:34

@Xyne
my appologies you do have rgb in that selection. No thats perfect as a web developer i need one of those two values, then i can work with it. Thanks again.

sand_man · 2010-01-11 23:52:55

Xyne, how do you come up with all of these cool little ideas?

Xyne · 2010-01-12 05:50:41

@fogobogo
If you mean a short description inside the script, then I've done that. I'll probably package this soon too.

@sand_man
I tend to get sidetracked when coding and end up trying different things just to see if they would work.

Xyne · 2010-04-15 18:11:35

*bump*

I started by porting some Perl functions to Python and ended up adding a quite a few things:

* CMYK values
* color names
* terminal colors
* palette functions

I also dissected the color selection widget and reorganized it.

You can now install it from my repo or from the AUR as well.

Last edited by Xyne (2010-04-15 18:12:48)

qubodup · 2010-04-17 12:10:48

Thanks! I'll be using this from now on

alterecco · 2010-04-17 22:15:36

One feature I would love to see is a magnification window. I find it really helps select *that* pixel.

Otherwise, excellent job. Very nice program

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Xyne · 2010-04-17 23:30:55

A magnification window would be useful but it's somewhat beyond the current scope. I'll look into it and decide whether to implement it once I have a better idea how.

If you haven't discovered it yet, you can turn on "auto-add" and then drag the eye-dropper across your target. You should then be able to select the correct color from the palette.

*after browsing code for a couple of minutes*

I think I know how to do it and it's simpler than I expected. I've bookmarked a few pages so that I'll remember to look into it tomorrow.

Xyne · 2010-04-19 04:08:43

bumpity bump

I've added a zoom window.

Set the zoom level to 1 then zoom in on the zoom window itself for fun side-effects.

Xyne wrote:

I think I know how to do it and it's simpler than I expected.

The basic concept was. Actually figuring out how to set up the events and capture them outside of the window involved several facepalms (e.g. mixing up gtk.Window with gtk.gdk.Window, gtk.* with gtk.*_MASK).

Last edited by Xyne (2010-04-19 04:13:34)

alterecco · 2010-04-19 13:05:52

Works great. Thanks for that Xyne

daneel971 · 2010-04-19 18:23:59

Many thanks for this tool - it's a stable member of my tray apps in tint2

[NAGGING_THE_AUTHOR_MODE_ON] Just a couple of thoughts: I start pychrom in autostart.sh (openbox) and it opens with the full window - I'd expect it starts in the tray. In the same way, when I click the X in a window (the close button, I mean) if the program has systray support I'd expect it to "close in the tray" and not to exit. [NAGGING_THE_AUTHOR_MODE_OFF]

Xyne · 2010-04-19 19:04:16

I've add a "--tray" option to minimize to the tray at startup. Note that it doesn't check whether the tray actually exists first (due to race conditions with embedding the icon).

Closing the window will now minimize to the tray if the tray is detected. I hadn't added this before because I didn't want to make it exclusively a tray app (I hadn't looked into tray detection... have to add that to unibrow and pystopwatch too).

Last edited by Xyne (2010-04-19 19:45:56)

daneel971 · 2010-04-19 20:03:54

updating... and thanks again ^^

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