ColorPicker that Resembles Adobe PhotoShop ColorPicker. Replace Windows Old Color Dialog with this new Standard ColorPicker (ColorBox) in your application With More Controll over the ColorPicker. This was firstly written as reusable form, but here I'm presenting it as an Active-X Control so that any one can use it easily. Algorithms are fast and was written from scratch. I have tried as much as possible to make this Controll Bug free. Any suggestions, comments expecially Votes will appreciated.
With New ColorChange Event which returns selected color Dynamically. small (Bug..? )Fixed.
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Mr Saifuhdeen is constantly prooving his skills on graphics.. excellent source. 5g at least. Keep up my friend. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Some of the gyes have asked me for the permission about putting this colorpicker in their shareware programms and querrying for any royalties. You may use it in your app free of charge...if code is intact. and any donations,.Accepted... if you need to change the code please send me an E-mail.. Thanks....Gyes... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Very Nice.. It found confortable.... at 256 graphics card ! It didn't dither.... atleast 5 from me (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
WOW... I was really looking for something like this... was worried i was gonna have to make it by myself 10 stars (if i could) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Trying the new 2-21-2002 version. Everytime I use it my windows 2000 sp2 latest security patches installed automatically reboots. I can't debug it because it crashes too soon. A couple of times my hard drive hangs and won't boot (forcing me to make emergency backups). I know it's this source because in over a year, I've never had a problem and I'm up and running 24/7. Plus, it doesn't happen until I run to source... and then click in the client area with either mouse button. The older version works fine. This update crashes. No votes until I can make it work. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I think the problem may with the Sample program. Open the control project and make the control as ocx. then test it with a new form. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
i have the same problem from the post above "2/22/2002 1:03:24 AM:Shawn Bullock", but i did not tried the older version. When I run the source and clicked in client area, I got a blue-screen that machine reseted. So it not boot anymore. I had to restore my backup.
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Now i tried to compile the OCX and start a new project with it. Once again, when i call the Show method, the machine rebooted again. This time no need to restore my backup. I think you should review the OCX code. Anyway, I will not try it again. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Sorry for the problem you faced, Please tell me about your system such as OS,RAM ,processor,Graphics Card etc and Mail it to me. I uses both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 in my computer. I have tested this control in both operating systems,I have not found any problems! So you please respond with this so that may I find the problem on my OCX.
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Saifudheen A A: i gave you credit where it was due, 10x and enjoy: http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=33867&lngWId=1 (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
There's a good chance these rebooting problems are because of the type of graphics card these guys are using and associated drivers. I've watched the same kind of comments occur when a new program comes out that does palette manipulation. Might want to start there. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
this failed on my machine - windows XP as screen res of 1280 *1024 with an error in load saturation vartiant : KV was -1, which crashed the bitmap byte array (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
12/25/2003 5:21:01 AM:
excellent (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
There are indeed a handful of very critical bugs in this software that can be traced very easily to Byte Array variables being assigned a value of -1 (Bytes have to be 0 to 255). This could definitely caused a system failure on older OSs and graphics cards.
I surely wish that Saifudheen would re-check his code and correct the bounds that cause negative numbers to be assigned to Byte arrays in the loadsaturationvariant, loadbrightnessvariant and loadhuevariant subs. It's very easy to reproduce, but the code is so poorly commented that it's difficult to correct.
Very surprised that no one else caught this and that this color picker has won awards.
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