Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Pynche - The PYthonically Natural Color and Hue Editor |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
Barry Warsaw | 6403991 | 1998-12-15 01:02:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | Contact: Barry A. Warsaw |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | Email: bwarsaw@python.org |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | Version: 1.0 |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | Introduction |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | Pynche is a color editor based largely on a similar program that I |
| 10 | originally wrote back in 1987 for the Sunview window system. That |
| 11 | editor was called ICE, the Interactive Color Editor. I'd always |
| 12 | wanted to port this program to X but didn't feel like hacking X |
| 13 | and C code to do it. Fast forward many years, to where Python + |
| 14 | Tkinter provides such a nice programming environment, with enough |
| 15 | power, that I finally buckled down and re-implemented it. I |
| 16 | changed the name because these days, too many other systems have |
| 17 | the acronym `ICE'. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | Pynche has been tested with Python 1.5.x using Tk 8.0.x. It |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | probably works with Python 1.5. I've tested it on both Solaris |
| 21 | 2.6 and Windows NT. There are some funky things that happen on |
| 22 | Windows but I think they are primarily Tk problems. You'll want |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | to be sure to have at least Tk 8.0.3 for Windows. Also, Pynche is |
| 24 | very colormap intensive, so it doesn't work very well on 8-bit |
| 25 | graphics cards. I'll probably fix that in the future. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | Pynche must find a text database of colors names in order to |
| 28 | provide `nearest' color matching. Pynche is distributed with an |
| 29 | rgb.txt file from the X11R6.4 distribution for this reason, along |
| 30 | with other "Web related" database (see below). You can use a |
| 31 | different file with the -d option. The file xlicense.txt contains |
| 32 | the license only for rgb.txt and both files are in the X/ |
| 33 | subdirectory. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | Pynche is pronounced `Pinch-ee'. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | Running Standalone |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | On Unix, start it by running the `pynche' script. On Windows, run |
| 40 | pynche.pyw to inhibit the console window. When run from the |
| 41 | command line, the following options are recognized: |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | --database file |
| 44 | -d file |
| 45 | Alternate location of the color database file. Without this |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | option, the first valid file found will be used (see below). |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | --initfile file |
| 49 | -i file |
| 50 | Alternate location of the persistent initialization file. See |
| 51 | the section on Persistency below. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | --ignore |
| 54 | -X |
| 55 | Ignore the persistent initialization file when starting up. |
| 56 | Pynche will still write the current option settings to the |
| 57 | persistent init file when it quits. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | --help |
| 60 | -h |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | Print the help message. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | initialcolor |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | a Tk color name or #rrggbb color spec to be used as the |
| 65 | initially selected color. This overrides any color saved in |
| 66 | the persistent init file. Since `#' needs to be escaped in |
| 67 | many shells, it is optional in the spec (e.g. #45dd1f is the |
| 68 | same as 45dd1f). |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | Running as a Modal Dialog |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | Pynche can be run as a modal dialog, inside another application, |
| 73 | say as a general color chooser. In fact, Grail 0.6 already uses |
| 74 | Pynche and a future version of IDLE may as well. Pynche supports |
| 75 | the API implemented by the Tkinter standard tkColorChooser module, |
| 76 | with a few changes as described below. By importing pyColorChooser |
| 77 | from the Pynche package, you can run |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | |
Barry Warsaw | cf1daad | 1998-10-22 19:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | pyColorChooser.askcolor() |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | |
Barry Warsaw | cf1daad | 1998-10-22 19:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | which will popup Pynche as a modal dialog, and return the selected |
| 82 | color. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | There are some UI differences when running as a modal |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | vs. standalone. When running as a modal, there is no "Quit" menu |
| 86 | item under the "File" menu. Instead there are "Okay" and "Cancel" |
| 87 | buttons. |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | When "Okay" is hit, askcolor() returns the tuple |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | ((r, g, b), "name") |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | where r, g, and b are red, green, and blue color values |
| 94 | respectively (in the range 0 to 255). "name" will be a color name |
| 95 | from the color database if there is an exact match, otherwise it |
| 96 | will be an X11 color spec of the form "#rrggbb". Note that this |
| 97 | is different than tkColorChooser, which doesn't know anything |
| 98 | about color names. |
| 99 | |
Barry Warsaw | cf1daad | 1998-10-22 19:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | askcolor() supports the following optional keyword arguments: |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | color |
| 103 | the color to set as the initial selected color |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | master[*] |
| 106 | the master window to use as the parent of the modal |
| 107 | dialog. Without this argument, pyColorChooser will create |
| 108 | it's own Tkinter.Tk instance as the master. This may not |
| 109 | be what you want. |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | |
Barry Warsaw | a853adc | 1999-04-27 18:57:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | databasefile |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | similar to the --database option, the value must be a |
| 113 | file name |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | initfile[*] |
| 116 | similar to the --initfile option, the value must be a |
| 117 | file name |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | ignore[*] |
| 120 | similar to the --ignore flag, the value is a boolean |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | |
Barry Warsaw | a853adc | 1999-04-27 18:57:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | wantspec |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | When this is true, the "name" field in the return tuple |
| 124 | will always be a color spec of the form "#rrggbb". It |
| 125 | will not return a color name even if there is a match; |
| 126 | this is so pyColorChooser can exactly match the API of |
| 127 | tkColorChooser. |
Barry Warsaw | cf1daad | 1998-10-22 19:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | [*] these arguments must be specified the first time |
| 130 | askcolor() is used and cannot be changed on subsequent calls. |
Barry Warsaw | cf1daad | 1998-10-22 19:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | The Colorstrip Window |
| 133 | |
| 134 | The top part of the main Pynche window contains the "variation |
| 135 | strips". Each strip contains a number of "color chips". The |
| 136 | strips always indicate the currently selected color by a highlight |
| 137 | rectangle around the selected color chip, with an arrow pointing |
| 138 | to the chip. Each arrow has an associated number giving you the |
| 139 | color value along the variation's axis. Each variation strip |
| 140 | shows you the colors that are reachable from the selected color by |
| 141 | varying just one axis of the color solid. |
| 142 | |
| 143 | For example, when the selected color is (in Red/Green/Blue |
| 144 | notation) 127/127/127, the Red Variations strip shows you every |
| 145 | color in the range 0/127/127 to 255/127/127. Similarly for the |
| 146 | green and blue axes. You can select any color by clicking on its |
| 147 | chip. This will update the highlight rectangle and the arrow, as |
| 148 | well as other displays in Pynche. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | Click on "Update while dragging" if you want Pynche to update the |
| 151 | selected color while you drag along any variation strip (this will |
| 152 | be slower). Click on "Hexadecimal" to display the arrow numbers |
| 153 | in hex. |
| 154 | |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 155 | There are also two shortcut buttons in this window, which |
| 156 | auto-select Black (0/0/0) and White (255/255/255). |
| 157 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | The Proof Window |
| 159 | |
| 160 | In the lower left corner of the main window you see two larger |
| 161 | color chips. The Selected chip shows you a larger version of the |
| 162 | color selected in the variation strips, along with its X11 color |
| 163 | specification. The Nearest chip shows you the closest color in |
| 164 | the X11 database to the selected color, giving its X11 color name. |
| 165 | Clicking on the Nearest color chip selects that color. Color |
| 166 | distance is calculated in the 3D space of the RGB color solid and |
| 167 | if more than one color name is the same distance from the selected |
| 168 | color, the first one found will be chosen. |
| 169 | |
| 170 | Note that there may be more than one X11 color name for the same |
| 171 | RGB value. In that case, the first one found in the text database |
| 172 | is designated the "primary" name, and this is shown under the |
| 173 | Nearest chip. The other names are "aliases" and they are visible |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | in the Color List Window (see below). |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | |
| 176 | The Type-in Window |
| 177 | |
| 178 | At the lower right of the main window are three entry fields. |
| 179 | Here you can type numeric values for any of the three color axes. |
| 180 | Legal values are between 0 and 255, and these fields do not allow |
| 181 | you to enter illegal values. You must hit Enter or Tab to select |
| 182 | the new color. |
| 183 | |
| 184 | Click on "Update while typing" if you want Pynche to select the |
| 185 | color on every keystroke (well, every one that produces a legal |
| 186 | value!) Click on "Hexadecimal" to display and enter color values |
| 187 | in hex. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | Other Views |
| 190 | |
| 191 | There are three secondary windows which are not displayed by |
| 192 | default. You can bring these up via the "View" menu on the main |
| 193 | Pynche window. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | The Text Window |
| 196 | |
| 197 | The "Text Window" allows you to see what effects various colors |
| 198 | have on the standard Tk text widget elements. In the upper part |
| 199 | of the window is a plain Tk text widget and here you can edit the |
| 200 | text, select a region of text, etc. Below this is a button "Track |
| 201 | color changes". When this is turned on, any colors selected in |
| 202 | the other windows will change the text widget element specified in |
| 203 | the radio buttons below. When this is turned off, text widget |
| 204 | elements are not affected by color selection. |
| 205 | |
| 206 | You can choose which element gets changed by color selection by |
| 207 | clicking on one of the radio buttons in the bottom part of this |
| 208 | window. Text foreground and background affect the text in the |
| 209 | upper part of the window. Selection foreground and background |
| 210 | affect the colors of the primary selection which is what you see |
| 211 | when you click the middle button (depending on window system) and |
| 212 | drag it through some text. |
| 213 | |
| 214 | The Insertion is the insertion cursor in the text window, where |
| 215 | new text will be inserted as you type. The insertion cursor only |
| 216 | has a background. |
| 217 | |
| 218 | The Color List Window |
| 219 | |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 220 | The "Color List" window shows every named color in the color name |
| 221 | database (this window may take a while to come up). In the upper |
| 222 | part of the window you see a scrolling list of all the color names |
| 223 | in the database, in alphabetical order. Click on any color to |
| 224 | select it. In the bottom part of the window is displayed any |
| 225 | aliases for the selected color (those color names that have the |
| 226 | same RGB value, but were found later in the text database). For |
| 227 | example, find the color "Black" and you'll see that its aliases |
| 228 | are "gray0" and "grey0". |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | |
| 230 | If the color has no aliases you'll see "<no aliases>" here. If you |
| 231 | just want to see if a color has an alias, and do not want to select a |
| 232 | color when you click on it, turn off "Update on Click". |
| 233 | |
| 234 | Note that the color list is always updated when a color is selected |
| 235 | from the main window. There's no way to turn this feature off. If |
| 236 | the selected color has no matching color name you'll see |
| 237 | "<no matching color>" in the Aliases window. |
| 238 | |
| 239 | The Details Window |
| 240 | |
| 241 | The "Details" window gives you more control over color selection |
| 242 | than just clicking on a color chip in the main window. The row of |
| 243 | buttons along the top apply the specified increment and decrement |
| 244 | amounts to the selected color. These delta amounts are applied to |
| 245 | the variation strips specified by the check boxes labeled "Move |
| 246 | Sliders". Thus if just Red and Green are selected, hitting -10 |
| 247 | will subtract 10 from the color value along the red and green |
| 248 | variation only. Note the message under the checkboxes; this |
| 249 | indicates the primary color level being changed when more than one |
| 250 | slider is tied together. For example, if Red and Green are |
| 251 | selected, you will be changing the Yellow level of the selected |
| 252 | color. |
| 253 | |
| 254 | The "At Boundary" behavior determines what happens when any color |
| 255 | variation hits either the lower or upper boundaries (0 or 255) as |
| 256 | a result of clicking on the top row buttons: |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 257 | |
| 258 | Stop |
| 259 | When the increment or decrement would send any of the tied |
| 260 | variations out of bounds, the entire delta is discarded. |
| 261 | |
| 262 | Wrap Around |
| 263 | When the increment or decrement would send any of the tied |
| 264 | variations out of bounds, the out of bounds value is wrapped |
| 265 | around to the other side. Thus if red were at 238 and +25 |
| 266 | were clicked, red would have the value 7. |
| 267 | |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | Preserve Distance |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 269 | When the increment or decrement would send any of the tied |
| 270 | variations out of bounds, all tied variations are wrapped as |
| 271 | one, so as to preserve the distance between them. Thus if |
| 272 | green and blue were tied, and green was at 238 while blue was |
| 273 | at 223, and +25 were clicked, green would be at 15 and blue |
| 274 | would be at 0. |
| 275 | |
| 276 | Squash |
| 277 | When the increment or decrement would send any of the tied |
| 278 | variations out of bounds, the out of bounds variation is set |
| 279 | to the ceiling of 255 or floor of 0, as appropriate. In this |
| 280 | way, all tied variations are squashed to one edge or the |
| 281 | other. |
| 282 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | The top row buttons have the following keyboard accelerators: |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | |
| 285 | -25 == Shift Left Arrow |
| 286 | -10 == Control Left Arrow |
| 287 | -1 == Left Arrow |
| 288 | +1 == Right Arrow |
| 289 | +10 == Control Right Arrow |
| 290 | +25 == Shift Right Arrow |
| 291 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | Keyboard Accelerators |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | |
| 294 | Alt-w in any secondary window dismisses the window. In the main |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | window it exits Pynche (except when running as a modal). |
Barry Warsaw | e55055d | 1998-10-06 23:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | Alt-q in any window exits Pynche (except when running as a modal). |
| 298 | |
| 299 | Persistency |
| 300 | |
| 301 | Pynche remembers various settings of options and colors between |
| 302 | invocations, storing these values in a `persistent initialization |
| 303 | file'. The actual location of this file is specified by the |
| 304 | --initfile option (see above), and defaults to ~/.pynche. |
| 305 | |
| 306 | When Pynche exits, it saves these values in the init file, and |
| 307 | re-reads them when it starts up. There is no locking on this |
| 308 | file, so if you run multiple instances of Pynche at a time, you |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 309 | may clobber the init file. |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | |
| 311 | The actual options stored include |
| 312 | |
| 313 | - the currently selected color |
| 314 | |
| 315 | - all settings of checkbox and radio button options in all windows |
| 316 | |
| 317 | - the contents of the text window, the current text selection and |
| 318 | insertion point, and all current text widget element color |
| 319 | settings. |
| 320 | |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | - the name of the color database file (but not its contents) |
| 322 | |
Barry Warsaw | 3dd1c39 | 1998-10-22 04:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 323 | You can inhibit Pynche from reading the init file by supplying the |
| 324 | --ignore option on the command line. However, you cannot suppress |
| 325 | the storing of the settings in the init file on Pynche exit. If |
| 326 | you really want to do this, use /dev/null as the init file, using |
| 327 | --initfile. |
Barry Warsaw | cf1daad | 1998-10-22 19:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | |
Barry Warsaw | 821d8b7 | 1999-04-26 23:46:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 329 | Color Name Database Files |
| 330 | |
| 331 | Pynche uses a color name database file to calculate the nearest |
| 332 | color to the selected color, and to display in the Color List |
| 333 | view. Several files are distributed with Pynche, described |
| 334 | below. By default, the X11 color name database file is selected. |
| 335 | Other files: |
| 336 | |
| 337 | html40colors.txt -- the HTML 4.0 guaranteed color names |
| 338 | |
| 339 | websafe.txt -- the 216 "Web-safe" colors that Netscape and MSIE |
| 340 | guarantee will not be dithered. These are specified in #rrggbb |
| 341 | format for both values and names |
| 342 | |
| 343 | webcolors.txt -- The 140 color names that Tim Peters and his |
| 344 | sister say NS and MSIE both understand (with some controversy over |
| 345 | AliceBlue). |
| 346 | |
Barry Warsaw | 74109a1 | 1999-04-26 23:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 347 | namedcolors.txt -- an alternative set of Netscape colors. |
| 348 | |
Barry Warsaw | a25223f | 1999-04-26 23:48:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 349 | You can switch between files by choosing "Load palette..." from |
| 350 | the "File" menu. This brings up a standard Tk file dialog. |
| 351 | Choose the file you want and then click "Ok". If Pynche |
| 352 | understands the format in this file, it will load the database and |
| 353 | update the appropriate windows. If not, it will bring up an error |
| 354 | dialog. |
| 355 | |
Barry Warsaw | cf1daad | 1998-10-22 19:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 356 | To Do |
| 357 | |
| 358 | Here's a brief list of things I want to do: |
| 359 | |
| 360 | - Better support for resizing the top level windows |
| 361 | |
| 362 | - Better support on 8-bit screens |
| 363 | |
| 364 | - More output views, e.g. color solids |
| 365 | |
| 366 | - Have the notion of a `last color selected'; this may require a |
| 367 | new output view |
| 368 | |
| 369 | - Support setting the font in the text view |
| 370 | |
| 371 | I'm open to suggestions! |
Barry Warsaw | eb6b9b7e | 1998-12-03 19:49:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | |
| 373 | |
| 374 | |
| 375 | Local Variables: |
| 376 | indent-tabs-mode: nil |
| 377 | End: |