ACA Color Picker
Every now and then a client comes along with a request.
It seems easy enough. They want to use a specific color in the custom application you're building for him, but he has no idea what the color number is. Or he has an RGB value, and looks at you like you're an idiot when you say that's of no use to you.
I had just such a client come to me the other day. He had some very specific color choices in mind, but didn't know what the actual color codes were, and he had no idea how to find them out, either.
What he did have was an another application that had the colors he wanted to use in his application. Great. Now what?
Well, Mr. Google is the place to start for these sorts of things, at least for me.
I did some searching for things like "Delphi color picker" and "Delphi color codes", and really wasn't getting anywhere. I did find one really neat little freeware application that I thought was going to do what I wanted, but alas, it didn't. Great if you're dealing with html pages, completely useless for what I needed.
I kept searching. On to page 2, and then page 3 of Google's results, and somehow managed to stumble across ACA Color Picker.
I tried not to get my hopes up, but when I read their website, http://www.acasystems.com/en/color-picker/ I couldn't help myself.
They have a page devoted to Delphi's TColor format (you'd think I'd have tried that as a search term, right?) and that's where I read the magic words:
"ACA Color Picker supports capturing the color value of any screen pixel and displays its value in Delphi TColor format, you can use it on your delphi source code."
Well, right there I was sold. I downloaded the application demo immediately and gave it a test drive.
I already had my client's sample application with his color preferences.
I clicked the drop-down box for Format, and selected Hex: Delphi from the list of color options. There are thirteen in all, including CMYK, HSL, RGB, HTML, Actionscript, and of course, the one I needed, Hex: Delphi.
I just moved my mouse cursor over the area with the color he wanted, and pressed the default hotkey Ctrl + Shift + K, and there it was, the exact Delphi TColor I needed.
One more click of the program's Copy button to place it in the Windows Clipboard, and then paste it into my source code and I was done.
I really love it when the solution to my problem is that easy.
If you're a Delphi programmer (any kind of programmer really, web, Delphi, or any other programming language) and you've ever run into the problem of finding exactly the right color code to use in your application, then you know what I'm talking about.
If you need to find the specific color of a specific pixel on your screen, then this is the software you want. It will make the process so incredibly simple, you won't believe it.
Try ACA Color Picker today. I highly recommend it.
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