GiantColorSwatch

Who said windows have to be transparent?


What it does

GiantColorSwatch shows a window containing a swatch of a color. This can be used for backdrops, testing Color Panel extensions, and possibly other things that I haven't thought of.

A screenshot of the swatch window, set to white, with the Color Panel in front of it.

You can change the color using the Color Panel, which is shown for you on launch. You can close or miniaturize the Color Panel to get it out of the way; if you close it, you can get it back again with “Show Colors” in the Edit menu.

You can also move or resize the window. If you close it, the application will quit.

When the application quits, the color will be saved. When it next launches, the color from the previous session will be restored.


Version history

1.0.1
  • Hooked up “Show Colors” menu item. Oops.
  • Fixed “NewApplication” in Application and Help menus. I always forget that step…
1.0
  • Initial release.

Downloads

GiantColorSwatch-1.0.1.dmg
The application, on a zlib-compressed UDIF disk image.
MD5 hash: ccd114aae38155035318c82f782520cb
SHA-1 hash: 85e2fc85a2a32a3d7a19dbd4773b9bfddfb9cf27
GiantColorSwatch-1.0.1-source.tbz
Objective-C source code and an Xcode 2.2 project, in a bzip2ed tarball.
MD5 hash: 885fd0935e9350bd0b48ff68ee857d55
SHA-1 hash: 174d02452994fa6ecef91a1ead349de58b37240b

Previous versions

GiantColorSwatch-1.0.dmg
The application, on a zlib-compressed UDIF disk image.
MD5 hash: 1e7026761e891f7d12d32153f7f51030
SHA-1 hash: 989a7884390c1212a6afdb3a45a85d36622fe51c
GiantColorSwatch-1.0-source.tbz
Objective-C source code and an Xcode 2.2 project, in a bzip2ed tarball.
MD5 hash: 1d556025ad972d659f6bb21b5025e069
SHA-1 hash: 36f0cd2f7c08eea8aeb49767e5c0706914a2f871

MD5 and SHA1 signatures were created using the md5sum(1) and sha1sum(1) utilities from GNU coreutils.


2006-05-17 http://boredzo.org/giantcolorswatch
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