pkColorPicker 4.00.00 alpha 3

Because of the study I do not have time for my private projects, so that the development of pkColorPicker goes slowly ahead and I cannot foresee when I manage to complete the fourth version. Hence I want to make available my previous progresses to the public in the form of alpha versions.

The fourth version sets further on the long-proven user surface that has been minor changed since the very first version. But there are some new functions, which are interesting for programmers and VRML-developers in particular.

Multiscreen Support

since alpha 3 (26.06.2006):

The program starts on the same screen it was closed. If the window is out of primary screen in the context menu of tray icon the Item "Show on primary screen" will appear. This way it can be quickly moved to the visible area if the secondary screen have been switched off.

The context menu is shown on the same screen on wich it have been called. In all earlier versions the menu was always shown on primary screen.

Copy Formats

since alpha 2 (03.04.2005):

The context menu has become more clear: I have moved rarely used options to the option dialog. The VRML text box can be activated there too.

The new important function of alpha 2 are the user defined copy formats. Now you are able to define in which format the color numbers are copied to the clipboard yourself: the variables and constants listened below are replaced by corresponding values during auto copy, all other characters remain unchanged. This way you can e. g. use arbitrary separation characters.

Note, that RGB decimal values can now be also copied automatically although they do not have the copy button. In Visual Basic you can e. g. use RGB(%red%,%green%,%blue%) instead of &H%hexcolor%.

VRML Color Numbers

since alpha 1 (18.06.2003):

Now also the VRML-numbers are to be supported. The VRML-textbox can be activated in the context menu. The number of decimal places can be adjusted with the controller under the textbox. Unfortunately this function is not sophisticated yet, hence the VRML-numbers can be only read and copied manually but not edited and not inserted. The auto copy function for VRML and the copy button are unfortunately without function too.

since alpha 2 (03.04.2005):

The auto copy function is completed: the user is able to copy the VRML color numbers in the chosen format using the copy button. The pasting and editing VRML color numbers is still not possible.

Programming Interface

since alpha 1 (18.06.2003):

pkColorPicker 4 offers a programming interface, so that you can use it very comfortable as a color selection dialogue in your own programs. An example program in the directory pkColorPicker RC demonstrates all the possibilities that the developer has using this interface.

On the launch of pkColorPicker 4 his program folder is saved in the registry, so that it can be launched with the own program. The remaining functions are self-explanatory thus, they won’t be commented extra.

Lagals

This is a special version of new pkColorPicker that can be used for testing purposes for free. It is not allowed to offer this version for download on any other site, unless the software author has permitted it expressly.

Pawel Kazakow

Email: info@pkworld.de
Homepage: www.pkworld.de

15.05.2004