https://github.com/timboudreau/colorchooser

A swing color chooser, formerly hosted on java.net
https://github.com/timboudreau/colorchooser

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A swing color chooser, formerly hosted on java.net

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/timboudreau/colorchooser
• Owner: timboudreau
• Created: 2017-06-26T05:26:12.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-16T22:32:31.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-12-08T10:43:27.230Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: gui, swing, swing-color-chooser
• Language: Java
• Size: 899 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
Swing Color Chooser

===================

This is a simple one-click color chooser with a popup, developed in 1999 for NetBeans and until a few years

ago, hosted on java.net.  Loosely based on a lovely color chooser from

[KPT Bryce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_(software)) from the 90s.

It is used in [Gephi](https://gephi.org/), the graph visualization tool,

[Imagine](https://github.com/timboudreau/imagine), an image editor, some

[NetBeans Platform](https://netbeans.apache.org/kb/docs/platform/) tutorials,

and probably other projects (if you want a shout-out, submit a [request](https://github.com/timboudreau/colorchooser/issues)).

The purpose is to make color-selection fast and easy - clicking the chooser pops

up a palette, which you drag to select a color in, and it closes when the mouse

button is released - so, unlike complicated color dialogs, color selection is a

single gesture.  Pressing combinations of modifier keys switches between a number

of palettes (and different palettes can be passed to the constructor).



The original web site for the project

[is here](https://rawcdn.githack.com/timboudreau/colorchooser/89ed33622599f31236cfaa8e1e8b7151b51503e4/www/index.html).

#### Backstory

This was literally some of the first Java code I ever wrote, in 1999, as an alternate color chooser

for NetBeans - a port of a Delphi component I had written in 1996 or so.  Sun later acquired NetBeans,

and we open sourced the code on the long-defunct (thanks, Oracle) `java.net`.

It is localized (what few strings there are) into English, Spanish, French, Dutch and German.

It has been used in various projects over the years, maintained (acquiring alpha palettes and clipboard

support, including copy/paste HTML `#`-prefixed hex colors, just a couple of years ago), and is

stable and solid - and to my knowledge there is nothing like it for easy, low-UI-footprint (it's

just a colored swatch, no dialogs to close) color selection in Java.