Comments on: Easy Color Picking on the Mac

By: Phil Crosby

Phil Crosby — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:29:55 +0000

Your mint download pepper isn’t working, so the script is unavailable.

“Made it in Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/2462/domains/particletree.com/html/mint/pepper/orderedlist/downloads/class.php:104) in /home/2462/domains/particletree.com/html/mint/pepper/orderedlist/downloads/download.php on line 32”

By: Rukavi

Rukavi — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:58:32 +0000

i couldn’t open the script because it’s a read only file

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:52:15 +0000

Incredibly frickin’ AWESOME! Having color at your fingertips at any given moment is heaven sent!!!! I was lookin’ around to see if anyone had made an app to where you could just control-click on a color ‘anywhere’ and have the hex value, and found your site and script, even better!! This is lovely! Thank You Sooooo Much!

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:54:58 +0000

I think http://kuler.adobe.com/ deserves a mention as well.

By: William

William — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:58:53 +0000

Everyone needs a hug.

By: APM

APM — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:16:43 +0000

Good, simple way to access color picker while in any application! Great script. However, the HexColorPicker’s big shortcoming is that it’s not much help if you want web-safe colors. The #rgb setting doesn’t select the closest color and force it to 3 digits, it simply says that “selected color can’t be represented in 3 digits.” The “Web Safe Colors” list in the color palettes view already does that (by giving you a 3-digit color in 6-digit format), and it’s included. However, if you’re not working within the 216 web-safe colors and need precise RGB values, I can see how HexColorPicker could be useful.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:21:49 +0000

can I second the request for the source of that script? like others have mentioned, it attempts to open in Script Editor. I’d like it as an .app, so I can add my LaunchBar config will pick it up from my scripts folder.

By: William

William — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:12:05 +0000

I had the same problem opening the file, but got it working from the script menu:

Drop it in /Library/Scripts, then tick 'Show Script Menu in menu bar' in /Applications/AppleScript/AppleScript Utility

Select it from the script menu, the color picker pops up, the hex picker is the last icon on the right. (Use the spyglass to pick colours, took me a minute to figure that one :)

Thanks Kevin

p.s. the new design is fresh!

By: Brutal

Brutal — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:23:33 +0000

Same problem here. “Unable to read the file because the script is not editable (it was saved as read only)”

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:05:00 +0000

Ok, got the zip. Now I’m having the same issue that Dominik Hahn had. When I double click it tries to edit in Script Editor. I’m new to macs - just bought an Intel MacBook… Must be an AppleScript pref. Not turned on or something? Any advice is welcome!