possibly useful app i made that displays all .net colours elegantly | Tech Off

giddy

hi,

So I'm finally ready to showcase one of my apps, and its been almost a year since i stopped making any pet apps... and surprisingly this app is over 1.5 years old!!

There always comes a time when you're coding and you suddenly need to know what one of the .net colours you're going to use looks like, especially with those whimsical names. So I made this up......tell me what you guys think?? Thmbsup

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!

Download it here :

http://www.mediafire.com/file/iwnoghfvzxy/Colours v2.1.exe

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

Nice.

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

Ion Todirel
buuu

nice, even thought I'd usually use Paint.NET or similar, you may want to sort them

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

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

giddy

In reply to W3bbo

#Jul 7th @ 10:57 AM

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
buuu

In reply to giddy

#Jul 7th @ 11:32 PM

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 Smiley

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to Ion Todirel

#Jul 8th @ 6:15 AM

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?

Ion Todirel
buuu

In reply to W3bbo

#Jul 8th @ 6:53 AM

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

giddy

In reply to Ion Todirel

#Jul 8th @ 8:45 PM

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?

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to giddy

#Jul 10th @ 11:40 PM

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.