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From: Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...> - 2017-02-01 22:35:35
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On 02/01/2017 04:23 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Daniel J Sebald wrote: > >> Often when I am developing a set of plot commands I'll just toss in some >> colors that are distinguishable, e.g., "red", "green". Something quick. >> But those colors are often too bright or too monochrome to view >> comfortably in a more "finished-product" plot such as a publication or >> application. To choose customized colors "#RRGGBB", I often go to some >> color wheel (usually gimp) and pick the colors visually, for which the >> color wheel presents the associated RGB values. >> >> The thought just came to mind, Why not add a color wheel to the Qt and >> WXT terminals for the sake of convenience? [...] > > When I'm doing that sort of thing, my go-to is gcolor2 -- much lighter > than gimp -- http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/ I like to have not only a > color wheel with a hex read-out but also an "eye-dropper" tool to grab a > nice color from somewhere on the desktop if required. gcolor2 has that > (as also gimp, of course). > > Whether this sort of tool is something that gnuplot should arrange to > provide, I don't know. I think it may fall under the "Swiss army knife" > (good software should not aim to be) objection. Yes, true. I was thinking that since these frameworks already have color-picker features, they are simply a matter of a few lines. I installed gcolor2 and this works nicely, thanks. In addition to the eye-dropper, it also goes one step more in convenience by combining the RGB into a ready-made triplet #rrggbb that can be easily selected, copied and pasted. Dan |