As a web designer/developer/photographer... I was wondering, what is the best free all-round software based tool (on XP) for calibrating your monitor's color, brightness/contrast to the optimal settings so that your work looks as consistent as possible across OS's and monitor types? I know of Adobe Gamma, but is there a better alternativ...
I am trying to get a specific colour used by Windows XP in my .NET application. In Windows XP, if you go the Control Panel in 'category view', on the left hand side you have some 'See Also' options (Windows Update, Help and Support, Other Control Panel Options). The colour I'm trying to get is the light blue background colour shown beh...
Is there an intuitive way, or a good mnemonic, for understanding the correspondence between colors and their hexadecimal values? ...
Hi, I'm looking for a way to display multiple colors in a single C#/.NET label. E.g the label is displaying a series of csv separated values that each take on a color depending on a bucket they fall into. I would prefer not to use multiple labels, as the values are variable length and I don't want to play with dynamic layouts. Is the...
I'm looking for a (preferably free) component for Delphi for users to easily select about 100 different colours. I've currently got one as part of DevExpress's editors, but it only has about 20 proper colours to choose, with a bunch of other 'Windows' colours like clHighlight, clBtnFace, etc. It's for regular users, so would like to av...
What is the best way to give the user feedback for a color selection? I have a dialog with a "Select Color" push button which pops a QColorDialog. After the selection is made I want to show the user the color selected. Usually I do this using a QLabel and changing it's background color in the palette. This method is cumbersome and I thin...
I'm trying to dynamically generate a gif image of a specified size and color in an HttpHandler. For some reason, the image is being generated with a dithered color pattern rather than the solid color I expected the SolidBrush to create. The following code is the simplest I could find that exposes the problem. private void GenerateSqua...
I can not get clHightlight and clHightlightText colours to work in Delphi 2007, when I compile I get the errors: [DCC Error] GlobalFunctions.pas(412): E2003 Undeclared identifier: 'clHightlightText' [DCC Error] GlobalFunctions.pas(413): E2003 Undeclared identifier: 'clHightlight' But I have included the Graphic unit and in the same f...
Hi, I have SSRS Reports created and rendering in Excel format. I used a custom color(mentioned in excel spec R23,G123,B87) in SSRS. But it shows a different color with the same combination in SSRS. And once I render the report to Excel it shows the color different though I used the same color combination. Why is the color difference i...
There seem to be so many color wheel, color picker, and color matcher web apps out there, where you give one color and the they'll find a couple of other colors that will create a harmonic layout when being used in combination. However most of them focus on background colors only and any text printed on each background color (if text is ...
Hi, Can any one let me know How to get color combination compatible to both Excel and SSRS Thanks in advance ...
Given two colors and n steps, how can one calculate n colors including the two given colors that create a fade effect? If possible pseudo-code is preferred but this will probably be implemented in Java. Thanks! ...
I have read an example and tried to duplicate it's methods but with weird results. This is a 1 shot deal so I do not want to buy a package to do this. Also, it will be executed on a Multi-Valued database in a Basic that not many programmers write in anymore. If anyone can post a small example of this It would be most helpful. Specificall...
I'm writing a java game and I want to implement a power meter for how hard you are going to shoot something. I need to write a function that takes a int between 0 - 100, and based on how high that number is, it will return a color between Green (0 on the power scale) and Red (100 on the power scale). Similar to how volume controls wo...
I'm using eclipse for a few months, I realy like gvim better but eclipse makes my life easier with pydev and phpeclipse. Everything is pretty nice, I have a black fluxbox and black GTK themes, I've changed the syntax colors for py and php and now everything is dark background, light foreground (including the eclipse menu/borders/etc), ve...
How to change RGB color to HSV? In C# language. I search for very fast method without any external library. ...
Hey. I have an object that has a string property called BackgroundColor. This string is the hexidecimal representation of a color. I cannot change this object. I'm binding a collection of these objects to a listView. What I would like to do is bind the background of the listview's row to the BackgroundColor property of the object that i...
Hi, I would like to know how to change the colour of the equality sign and double quotes for html documents in the eclipse PDT IDE. I can change most colours in Preferences -> Web & XML -> HTML Files -> syntax coloring, but can't change the characters = or " e.g. in an anchor tag Anyone know if this is possible? ...
I spend some time editing configurations in .htaccess files across several projects in Eclipse. How would I go about telling Eclipse to auto color this file in a similar fashion as shell scripts or HTML? ...
All of my methods are failing me in various ways. different lighting can mess it all up too. has anyone every trying to return a name given a rgb value? "red" "green" "blue" would be enough to satisfy my needs for today. i have unsafe byte processing of images from my web cam. ...