Re: Is there a "standard" X-window Color chooser?

From: Conrad J. Sabatier (conrads_at_cox.net)
Date: 05/14/05 

Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 02:50:33 GMT

In article <cn025a$d3i$1@pc18.math.umbc.edu>,
Rouben Rostamian <rouben@pc18.math.umbc.edu> wrote:
>
>
>In article <oaLkd.883259$Gx4.401068@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
>Norm Dresner <ndrez@att.net> wrote:
>>Before I reinvent the wheel one more time, I'd like to know if there's a
>>relatively standard generic X-window app to function as a "Color Chooser".
>>I remember seeing a few color-display and/or choice apps on SGI's IRIX
>>systems (but I don't have one running here right now to try them out again)
>>but I can't find anything either in the manpages or in the O'Reilly
>>X-programming series.
>>
>>Ideally what I'd like as a user is to have a palette displayed and with a
>>mouse-click get a read-out of RGB values and -- if known -- a standard name
>>for the color I've chosen. A second choice would be a color mixer with
>>three sliding controls which I could use to adjust the relative R, G, and B
>>content of a color and to have the current color displayed in a box in
>>"real-time".
>
>There used to be a very nice program by Michael Weller called
>xcolorsel that did pretty much what you want. Apparently it
>was abandoned in 1994. You can still find its sources on
>the net, however it does not compile on any modern system.
>I tried patching it without success.
>
>The last time I compiled it successfully was on RedHat 6.2.
>Knowing that I wouldn't be able to compile it on newer
>Linuxes, I linked it with the static (not shared) libraries.
>The statically linked executable works very nicely on all
>Linuxes, including the latest kernels.
>
>If you want to, I can mail the executable to you.
>
>Here is what xcolorsel does:
>
>It displays the colors defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
>with sample patches. You can select a color and have it
>displayed as xcolorsel window's background. Similarly, you
>can select a color and have it displayed as xcolorsel window's
>foreground. This is very handy when you are experimenting
>with various color combinations.
>
>Additionally, you can grab a color from an arbitrary pixel from
>anywhere on the screen and ask xcolorsel to find the closest
>match in rgb.txt. I use that feature quite a lot, as well.
>
>If anyone here has patched xcolorsel to bring it up to date,
>I would be interested to know.
>
>--
>Rouben Rostamian

I just checked, and it's available in the FreeBSD ports collection, version
1.1a. If you'd like, I could mail you the port skeleton (Makefile, patches,
etc.). 

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"

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