PasteColor

tproli · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:27 am

Thanks. One thing your IsHexColor function is missing is that there's also 3-digit hex colors, e.g. #40F (= #4400FF).

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

Easy

Code:

ConsoleWrite('Return True: ' & _IsHexColor('FF00FF') & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Return False: ' & _IsHexColor('FF00HH') & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Return True: ' & _IsHexColor('0xFF00FF') & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Return False: ' & _IsHexColor('0xFF00HH') & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Return True: ' & _IsHexColor('#FF0000') & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Return False: ' & _IsHexColor('#FF00J0') & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Return False: ' & _IsHexColor('#FF00') & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Return True: ' & _IsHexColor('#FF0') & @CRLF)

; Accepts the following formats:
; 0xFFFFFF
; FFFFFF
; #FFFFFF
Func _IsHexColor($bColor) ; By guinness, Returns True or False.
   Return StringRegExp($bColor, '\b(0x|#)?([0-9a-fA-F]{3}|[0-9a-fA-F]{6})\b', 0) = 1
EndFunc   ;==>_IsHexColor

tproli · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:44 pm

Thanks. I'm done with the rgb input too but perhaps I will modify it a bit according to your script.

Here is my hex + rgb regex validation for the user input. Wasn't that easy

Code:

If StringRegExp($color, '\b[0-9a-fA-F]{6}\b|^(0*([01]?[0-9]?[0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])[, \s]\s*){2}(0*([01]?[0-9]?[0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])([,]{1})?)\s*$', 0) = 0 Then
        ShowError()
    EndIf

The rgb part accepts leading zeros too, like "120, 245, 00010".

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

RegExp is fun! :mrgreen:

Edit: I will try to shorten it and post the update tomorrow. I enjoy improving my RegExp knowledge as I'm still new to it as you can see.

tproli · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:16 pm

I added 0x0FFFFFF and 0x00FFFFFF color formats for input by adding

Code:

((0x0|0x00){1})?

to the beginning of the regex (+ doing string replace later).

I think I'm done with this, perhaps I will make a new function to copy rgb values from the color picker. That was enough of AutoIt for a while

Btw, I just noticed that your regex requires 0x or # in the beginning of the color string. Some applications put html hex values to the clipboard without the hash mark so I made it optional instead.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

The hash (#) and 0x are optional as you can see from the example(s) I included with the snippet.

tproli · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:37 pm

Sorry, you're right, must have been blind.

Here is the first release of PasteColor:

Changes:
- added RGB input feature
- added copy color from Windows color picker feature (both in RGB and HTML Hex formats)
- input box reappears if invalid color input was entered
- added "/silent" switch to skip input box (clipboard data is used)
- added readme.txt

http://rolandtoth.hu/files/PasteColor.zip

I enjoyed putting this together. It has more features than I planned on start but I think these features greatly improve usability. Because of the way it works and that r-g-b fields are mostly similar in different applications' color pickers, it works almost everywhere. For example I tried in FreeOffice, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, RJ TextEd, etc. Note that Photoshop has an option to copy color in hex format but you cannot copy RGB for example, but you can with PasteColor.

I am Baas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am **Posts:** 2586

Nice work there, tproli (& guinness).

A quick comment concerning the readme file, you may want to add a disclaimer re. liability and maybe add a link to the discussion thread on TPFC.

tproli · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:37 pm

Thanks, readme file is updated (link is the same).

I added a feature that allows copy/paste values from arbitrary number of fields. This comes handy for example when copying CMYK color or anywhere where you need to copy/paste values from more than 3 fields. In this case no color conversion is made so it is mainly for copying plain text (e.g. form data).
Commas are used for separators so it will fail if an input field's value also has a comma. As it is not an issue for me I leave it as it is, perhaps I will revisit if someone requests.

tproli · **Posted:** Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:47 am

Mods: thanks for the new topic.

Another update:

active input field is remembered: if you start PasteColor and switch to another application, PasteColor will paste color to the original color picker (or application) instead of the currently active window.
if original color picker (or application) is closed, PasteColor won't paste anything
removed systray icon

With saving original window/control handlers enables PasteColor to work in Adobe Illustrator's panels for example.

http://rolandtoth.hu/files/PasteColor.zip

tproli · **Posted:** Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:57 pm

Just switched from Send() to ControlSend() (and ControlGetText and ControlSetText) and its now super fast!

Download link updated.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

I had a quick look today and was going to say Send will get you into a lot of trouble.

tproli · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:31 am

Finally I got rid of sending TAB too and making the application even faster. I was testing and I thought it's not working because I saw the cursor not jumping to the next input control. In fact it did but it was too fast.

There's also a caveat. Now I activate the next control with ControlFocus() and in some applications the IDs are not one after the other, e.g. in Illustrator r-g-b is 11, 15, 17. I decided to leave it as it is: it works fine with Windows color picker, which was the main goal. It occassionally works in other applications, e.g. worked fine in Microsoft Word, RJ TextEd.

tproli · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:01 am

It turned out that it is not working on Windows 7. Apparently it has issues on activating the color picker (and perhaps the control also).

If someone could take a look it would be great - I have no machine with Windows 7, unfortunately. AutoIt source is available in the zip:

http://rolandtoth.hu/files/PasteColor.zip

tproli · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:04 am

Nevermind, I've set up a virtualbox to track the issue. Interesting though that the active window (control ID) recognition works fine in XP but not on Win7.

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