Features:

• The colours tumble correctly no matter what the form size is.
• Clicking on the boxes highlights them and copies the hex code onto clipboard.

Issues

• Sizing the form to show either one or only two coloumns of colours ends up with the scrollbar not scrolling all the way, which is a really wierd bug btw!

What about hanging it on C9's sandbox for download? 

W3bbo said:

Visual Element Brower already does this, in addition to showing visual-style renderable elements.

Ah, I figured there could be an app similar/better than mine!

@IonTodirel : What do you mean by sort them?

@JohnAskew : Oh, didn't know about the sandbox forum... is it ok if i make another post there, or can I have a mod move this post there??

giddy said:

W3bbo said:

*snip*

Ah, I figured there could be an app similar/better than mine!

@IonTodirel : What do you mean by sort them?

@JohnAskew : Oh, didn't know about the sandbox forum... is it ok if i make another post there, or can I have a mod move this post there??

Ion Todirel said:

giddy said:

*snip*

Ah, I figured there could be an app similar/better than mine!

>@IonTodirel : What do you mean by sort them?
the colors by... color

>@JohnAskew : Oh, didn't know about the sandbox forum... is it ok if i make another post there, or can I have a mod move this post there??
that would definitely won't happen on channel9

Ion: ah yes, but how do you sort-by-color?

Do you sort by luminosity? hue / chromiance? and then using which color model: HSB/RGB or the more scientific Lab system?

W3bbo said:

Ion Todirel said:

*snip*

Ion: ah yes, but how do you sort-by-color?

Do you sort by luminosity? hue / chromiance? and then using which color model: HSB/RGB or the more scientific Lab system?

my thoughts were on Lab, somehow it feels more familiar and easier to find what yo need, with

Ion Todirel said:

W3bbo said:

*snip*

my thoughts were on Lab, somehow it feels more familiar and easier to find what yo need, with

acutally the idea of leaving it alphabetically sorted is that its easier to find the colour you're looking for because you would probably only know the name which is what the app is for...

Would it be useful to sort it by colour? If so, that would be a little complex, how would i do that?

giddy said:

Ion Todirel said:

*snip*

acutally the idea of leaving it alphabetically sorted is that its easier to find the colour you're looking for because you would probably only know the name which is what the app is for...

Would it be useful to sort it by colour? If so, that would be a little complex, how would i do that?

If you want to give the user an easy way to find a color by name, you should add a Search-field; preferably one that filters the items while the user is typing. You could also make it more intelligent by automatically interpreting "grey" as "gray".

EDIT: if the user types "green", he would see all green colors (darkgreen, lightgreen, ...), which you can't do with regular alphabetic sorting.

TommyCarlier said:

giddy said:

*snip*

If you want to give the user an easy way to find a color by name, you should add a Search-field; preferably one that filters the items while the user is typing. You could also make it more intelligent by automatically interpreting "grey" as "gray".

EDIT: if the user types "green", he would see all green colors (darkgreen, lightgreen, ...), which you can't do with regular alphabetic sorting.

Interesting.... I might try it....