[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":315},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-2986337":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":90,"maker_in_thread":190,"shape":202,"grid":206,"attempts":279,"same_week":280,"maker_shows":38,"maker_hidden":308,"reader_version":309,"card":310},"2986337","Color Picker Pro","Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X","title","Show HN: Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Foscardelben\u002FColor-Picker-Pro","github.com","oscardelben",1315816860,2011,55,35,227,1097,21,"notable","dev_tools","color picker","desktop_app",[21,24,25,26],"mac os x","hex color","open source","mixed",0.3,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},13,6,2,4,25,{"execution":36,"design":39,"pricing":40,"idea":42},{"positive":37,"critical":38},0,3,{"positive":37,"critical":37},{"positive":37,"critical":41},1,{"positive":41,"critical":37},[44,37,44,37,44,44,38,38,37,44,37,44,38,41,41,37,41,38,37,38,37,44,44,37,44,41,44,44,38,44,37,38,38,37,44],5,null,{"problem":47,"audience":59,"pricing":67,"motivation":45,"time_to_build":45,"stack":75,"openness":87,"stage":88,"team_size":89},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Picking and copying screen colors as hex or RGB values on Mac","inferred",[51,55],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},"2986766","lancashire","For the life of me I can't understand why Apple decided to remove hex values from their color picker with Lion. This is a great alternative, the copy shortcut is very handy.",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"2987019","54mf","So glad for this. I used to use Pipette on a regular basis, but it seems to be half-broken in Lion. This saves my day(s). Would be nice to have a copy-this-color mode that didn't…",{"value":60,"source":49,"evidence":61},"Mac designers and developers who need screen colors",[62,63],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"2987008","jonheller","Great app. I only wish there was an option to exclude the # when copying, as then I could directly paste the color code into Photoshop.",{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"Free and open source","commenter",[71],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"2987304","markazevedo","While I love this is FOSS, there's is a $1 paid-app that is almost entirely 1:1 with the Snow Leopard (plus features) called \"Classic Color Picker\". Totally worth it IMO.…",[76],{"value":77,"source":49,"evidence":78},"Objective-C",[79,83],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"2988410","Zev","I might be an outlier, but, I spent a few hours last weekend looking for a color picker that had CMYK support. Although, maybe I'll send a pull request your way, if I find the…",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"2989358","marchdown","What is the preferred way to report bugs? I've just stumbled upon two: 1. when mouse cursor approaches top edge of the screen, preview stretches vertically so that it's still…","open_source","launched","unknown",{"praise":91,"objections":111,"requests":132,"questions":156,"alternatives":168},[92,104],{"value":93,"source":69,"evidence":94},"Useful lightweight picker that replaces broken alternatives",[95,96,100],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"2986648","dan1234","This is nice! I've been looking for a decent, lightweight colour picker since switching from Windows years ago, where I relied on the also excellent Pixie…",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"2986966","jwr","Thank you! I can't even count the number of times when I needed something like this.",{"value":105,"source":69,"evidence":106},"Open source lets users learn from the code",[107],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"2987394","emehrkay","Yeah, this isn't showing the preview of the second monitor (Lion), but it still captures the color. This is a GREAT app! Because it is open source, I can pick it apart and learn…",[112,120,127],{"value":113,"source":69,"evidence":114},"Preview misbehaves on dual monitors",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"2987305","sbarre","There seems to be some strange behaviour with dual monitors. 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One feedback idea would be to let me close the stay-on-top window with the keyboard instead of having to clicking the x or the…",{"value":146,"source":69,"evidence":147},"CMYK color support",[148],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},{"value":150,"source":69,"evidence":151},"Save and manage a list of several colors",[152],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"2987439","rickdale","Quality program. Well worth the download and even a donation. I just opened kuler to poke around with it; I can definitely see this being a huge time saver on projects. Any…",[157,164],{"value":158,"source":69,"evidence":159},"Which license is the project released under",[160],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"2988573","rbritton","Which license is this released under? I don't see any indication of anything other than this in the auto-generated XCode comments: ``` \u002F\u002F Copyright 2011 DibiStore. 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