picket

Picket

Screen color picker for linux with magnifier and custom/user defined formats.

Main Window

Features

Magnifier: Zoom in on particular pixels
Precision: Pixel precision selection
CustomFormat: Custom color format output
FormatEditor: Format editor
Variables: Multiple variables for format output creation
Settings: Usefull settings like start immediate pick and quit after pick
Shortcuts: Shortcuts

Magnifier

CustomFormat

All the formats are stored in the directory {home}/.picket in the file formats.txt Color Formats consist of two components:

[xxxx] – A unique indetifier
xxxxxx… – The actual string that will be copied to the clipboard

Example

[RGB]$r$, $g$, $b$

output:

150, 250, 75

Lines that do not start with a [ character are ignored and can be used like comments

FormatEditor

Simple Format Editor

Variables

Variable	Description
$r$	Red 0-255
$g$	Green 0-255
$b$	Blue 0-255
$a$	Aplha 0-255
$r_d$	Red as double 0.0 – 1.0
$g_d$	Green as double 0.0 – 1.0
$b_d$	Blue as double 0.0 – 1.0
$a_d$	Alpha as double 0.0 – 1.0
$r_hex$	Red as hex 00 – FF
$g_hex$	Green as hex 00 – FF
$b_hex$	Blue as hex 00 – FF
$a_hex$	Alpha as hex 00 – FF
$h$	Hue
$s$	Saturation in %
$l$	Lightness in %
$s_d$	Saturation as double
$l_d$	Lightness as double
$c$	Cyan 0-100
$m$	Magenta 0-100
$y$	Yellow 0-100
$k$	Key 0-100
$c_d$	Cyan as double 0.0 – 1.0
$m_d$	Magenta as double 0.0 – 1.0
$y_d$	Yellow as double 0.0 – 1.0
$k_d$	Key as double 0.0 – 1.0

Settings

Useful settings:

Start immediate pick – Starts the picking process when the application starts
Copy to clipboard after pick – Copies the selected format to clipboard after the pickcing process finished
Quit after pick – Quits the application after the picking process finishes

Shortcuts

MainWindow

Key	Description
`SPACE` or `p`	Starts the picker
`TAB`	Copies the format to the clipboard
`q`	Quit. Exit application.
`1...9`	Quick format selection

Picker

Key	Description
`up arrow` or `w`	Move up
`down arrow` or `s`	Move down
`left arrow` or `a`	Move left
`right arrow` or `d`	Move right
`e` or `+`	Increase magnifier size
`q` or `-`	Decrease magnifier size
`ESC`	Cancel pick

Packages

Arch User Repositories https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/picket/

Manual Install

Clone the repository to your local machine. git clone https://github.com/rajter/Picket.git
Change directory to Picket cd Picket
Create directory “build” mkdir build
Change directory to build cd build
Execute cmake for Release build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
Execute sudo make install to build and install it on your machine.

  git clone https://github.com/rajter/Picket.git
  cd Picket
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
  sudo make install

Prerequisites

GCC – GNU Compiler
Gtkmm Gtkmm – GTK+ wrapper for c++

Built With

mINI – tiny, header only C++ library for manipulating INI files
Glade – Glade user interface designer

Authors

Andrija Rajter – Initial work – rajter

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License – see the LICENSE file for details