Color Picker

[SMcNeill]

One of my most useful little ten minute programs that I've came up with for a while, though this is for Windows Only:

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Dim WinMse As POINTAPI

Type POINTAPI: As Long X_Pos, Y_Pos: End Type



Declare Dynamic Library "User32"

    Function GetWindowLongA& (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long)

    Function SetWindowLongA& (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long)

    Function GetAsyncKeyState% (ByVal vkey As Long)

    Function GetCursorPos (lpPoint As POINTAPI)

End Declare

Width 12, 1 'large enough to hold our color value in hex

GWL_STYLE = -16

ws_border = &H800000

WS_VISIBLE = &H10000000

_Title "Color Picker"

hwnd& = _WindowHandle

winstyle& = GetWindowLongA&(hwnd&, GWL_STYLE)

_Delay .2

a& = SetWindowLongA&(hwnd&, GWL_STYLE, winstyle& And WS_VISIBLE)



Color 15

Do

    _Limit 30

    z = GetCursorPos(WinMse)

    _ScreenMove WinMse.X_Pos + 1, WinMse.Y_Pos + 1

    tempimage = _ScreenImage

    Cls , 0

    _Source tempimage: Print Hex$(Point(WinMse.X_Pos, WinMse.Y_Pos));: _Source 0

    _FreeImage tempimage

    _Display

Loop Until GetAsyncKeyState(1) Or GetAsyncKeyState(2) Or GetAsyncKeyState(27)

System

Run it. Move the mouse around your screen. I think you can tell fairly quickly and easily what it does for you.

[Pete]

I'm having trouble running it full screen.

I made a few similar Win32 API utilities, but I never thought of a color-picker, nice!

+1

Pete

[bplus]

color picker or color reporter?

It is interesting. Could be handy.

[grymmjack]

Nice color picker @SMcNeill!

[SMcNeill]

What would be nice is if I could minimize it to the icon tray on the lower right corner and then configure it to pop-up/close with a set of hotkeys.  I don't want it minimized and stuck on the task bar, but as an icon in the tray, it'd be a nice TSR tool to make use of whenever I wanted to know the color code for whatever was on the screen. 

Anyone have a clue how to register and minimize to the system tray?  And perhaps a working demo?  I'd love to see it sometime if so.

[Pete]

@SMcNeill

Step 1) Right click the exe file. In the menu, click: Pin to Taskbar.

Step 2) Move it in your Task Bar so it is no more than 10 icons from the left. Let's say it is #8.

Step 3) Hold the Windows key and press the number 8.

That will open it. Unfortunately, I do not believe repeating the Win + 8 will toggle it closed. Sorry.

Pete

[SMcNeill]

@SMcNeill

Step 1) Right click the exe file. In the menu, click: Pin to Taskbar.

Step 2) Move it in your Task Bar so it is no more than 10 icons from the left. Let's say it is #8.

Step 3) Hold the Windows key and press the number 8.

That will open it. Unfortunately, I do not believe repeating the Win + 8 will toggle it closed. Sorry.

Pete

I'm not talking about the taskbar itself, but the icon tray in the lower corner:




(Click the image above to expand it.  You can see the icons down in the little pop-up area in the corner.)  <-- That's the functionality I'm talking about.

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I'm thinking it'd have to be done via https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...otifyicona

I'm just not certain how to do it without an example to go by that I can build off of. 

[Pete]

Oh, the system tray. In my Win 10, I need to click the ^ symbol to pull that up...



You might need third party software to set that up. Here's an article I found:

https://umatechnology.org/how-to-minimiz...h-hotkeys/

Might be worth a look if no one comes along with a native way to do it.

Pete