Kolorgenerator (colors generator) is a tool designed especially for people working with colors. Can be useful for programmers and webmasters as well as "normal" people wanting to choose right color for desktop :). It has a simple interface and user friendly tooltips system, you must spend only a few minutes to discover all functions.
Kolorgenerator works as a stand alone .exe file (no need to install external libraries) it means you can download it and run without any installation process. Its easy to move it to any place on your hard disk or run it from removable drives as a floppy disk or pendrive.
When the program starts, it creates in the current directory a small configuration file. In that file all program settings will be stored. Deleting that file restores default settings for Kolorgenerator.
At this moment the program is available in two language versions: Polish and English.
Main functions:
choose color from RGB palette
choose color from WEB SAFE colors palette
pick color from any point of desktop window, its also available special option to choose color from desktop THROUGH Kolorgenerator window, you can choose between available 8 degrees of magnify, its possible to pick colors serial
creating a path between two selected colors (path creations depends on how many color buffers are available for operation - up to 255
creating a path from selected color to black and white, especially usefull for creating schemes for CSS styles
copying colors between buffers
swap colors between buffer
generating a contrast color to selected one
export color palette to few popular formats: ACT - color table, PAL - Microsoft palette file, ACO - Photoshop swatches, GPL - GIMP palette file.
import colors palette from ACT and PAL files
export colors (selected one or bigger range) to system clipboard as txt in selected data format.
Available data formats: HTML, RGB, MS VC++, MS VB, CMYK, JAVA, PASCAL, HSV/B, its also possibility to modify data format or creating new one needed.
cutting color to gray shades
generating new random color
activating application HOTKEY which can in fast way show/hide Kolorgenerator window
docking tool window to desktop corners
"live" conversion to WEB SAFE colors palette
at start program have 16 color buffers available but you can increase amount of colors up to 256
you can manipulate selected color in RGB or HSV range (use sliders), at the RGB tab you can directly input decimal or hexadecimal color values.
Kolorgenerator has a built-in tooltips system, just place mouse pointer over button/object and wait a moment for tooltip.
