Submission details
Color Selection Dialog
Windows has kept the same Win 3.1 Color selection dialog box, and it needs to go away badly.
(No support for other color models, can't access profiles from it.)
Update the standard Color selection dialog to remain compatible, so existing applications get the new dialog box. If the application is legacy, have the dialog return the proper color Values the old dialog box did, etc.
Features to add:
Multi-Color Mode selection. RGB, CMYK, etc etc
New look that shows full gamut of each color mode, and allows selection of any color. (Many models - even inside MS to copy from, that already do this.)
Support translucency color selection, etc etc.
Access the Window's Color Profile Management features (Spawn from Dialog box)
Texture selection instead of Color.
Gradient Management (Extensive like WPF supports)
Think features of Color/Brush/Texture/Etc that XAML/WPF supports and put everything in the color dialog so it is available as much as possible to older applications for basic values returning to new OS level dialog features than can return anything. AND MAKE IT STANDARDIZED so everything uses as much of it as possible.
Also, please...
Add drag and drop to the Color Dialog, so newer applications have a swatch of paint when the current color is displayed, and the user can drag this swatch to the application that launched the color Dialog. (Think OS/2 Color Selection dialog, but on sterioids)
We have XPS/WPF and incredible graphics abilities in Vista, but the standard OS level dialogs are from the 1980s.
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Discussion (5 comments)
This is definitely a needed feature, it's a blast from the past every time I see the color selector pop-up.
the office 2007 color box is nice.... they should jusr use that one
Allow loadable/saveable system-wide color themes so different applications can share colors (e.g., for coordinated media campaigns, signature colors, etc.--much as this already occurs in Office 2007.) Also, a color picker (eyedropper tool) is mandatory, as is support, at the very minimum, for hex, and possibly, named color entry (to make the dialog web-friendly.) Options for greater color depth (e.g. up to 48-bit) and color theme creation (e.g. colormatch 5k.)
thenonhacker wrote on June 8, 2008, 5:13pm
+1
I have seen a lot of AJAX Color Pickers that are more useful than the annoying Legacy Color Selector. Makes it easy to use RGB, HSB, CMYK, LAB, and Web Colors!