dans.blog: Searching for an Eclipse Color Picker...

I was trying to find an Eclipse-based color picker that worked as a view this afternoon. I can't believe nobody has created one, but from the looks of my Google searches no one has. It would really be great to have a color wheel with the features of Adobe's Kuler available right from Eclipse.

If anyone knows of a really good color swatch/picker for Eclipse, please let me know.

However, I did come across ColorCop in my search—which I'm going to try out and see how it works for me. There's no installer and it's free, with an option to donate via PayPal if you find the program useful.

Here's a list of the features ColorCop offers:

It features an eyedropper, magnifier, variable magnification levels, 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling, snap to websafe, color history, and a 42 color complementary palette. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes. It has color code support for HTML Hex, Delphi Hex, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic Hex, and Visual C++ Hex.

Categories: JavaScript, HTML/ColdFusion, Flex/Flash

4 Comments

Jim Priest
Nov 27, 2007 @ 7:45 PM

Not for Eclipse, but I use Colorzilla http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/
Dan G. Switzer, II
Nov 27, 2007 @ 10:03 PM

I have Colorzilla installed as well. However, I'd really like something that was completely accessible within Eclipse. I'm sure I could open http://kuler.adobe.com/ up in a Browser view within Eclipse, but a native solution would really be convenient.
Mark Drew
Nov 28, 2007 @ 2:14 AM

CFEclipse has had one for a looong time :)
Dan G. Switzer, II
Nov 28, 2007 @ 8:18 AM

@Mark:

The thing I don't like about CFEclipse's Color Picker is that you can only use it from within a CFEclipse editor. It doesn't help me when I'm editing files outside of CFEclipse--such as in Aptana.

That said, I really can't thank you enough for all your hard work on CFEclipse. It's really appreciated by many.

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