The Color Chooser is opened whenever color selection is necessary. It can be called from several places in the application including: the main toolbar and menu to insert a color value into the current document, the Attributes sidebar when editing a color attribute, and from various dialogs for choosing colors.
The Color Chooser has a number of different ways to choose colors. Each is described below. For all tabs in the dialog, the currently selected color is displayed in the Selected Color box at the bottom of the window. While hovering the mouse over a color, that color is displayed in the Hover Color box at the bottom of the window. Both these boxes show the color's hex, RGB values, and sometimes its name.
Safety Colors | |
The Safety Colors tab displays "browser safe" colors.
These colors are guaranteed to be displayed appropriately by browsers in situations where operating
system palette sizes are limited.
The Hex Chart checkbox at the bottom of the tabstrip changes the display mode between Hex Chart mode and Cube mode. |
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Named Colors | |
The Named Colors tab displays all colors that have names recognized by most modern browsers. The Basic set shows the standard 16 color set while the Advanced shows an extended set of colors. |
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Custom Colors | |
The Custom Colors tab displays any saved user-defined colors and allows you to create new custom
colors in a variety of ways.
The sliders and text boxes at the top of the tabstrip allow you to specify a color from RGB values. You can use the sliders to change the RGB values or type hex codes directly into the textboxes. Once a color has been set, you can save the color to one of 64 custom color slots. To do this, click on an empty slot and press the Set button. To clear a slot, select it by clicking on it and press the Clear button. The Clear All button will clear all slots. The Windows Color Picker button displays the standard Windows color selection dialog. You can select or create a color in that dialog and it will be used as the selected color in the Color Chooser. |
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User Palettes | |
The User Palettes tab displays any user-defined palette files stored in the Palettes subfolder of the
main Spider Writer folder. To switch between user palettes, select the palette name in the Palettes drop-down list.
Creating User PalettesUser palettes are simply text files storing RGB values. They should be named with a .PAL extension and should be placed in the Palettes subfolder. The filename before the extension is what populates the Palettes drop-down list. Each .PAL file can store up to 256 color values. Each line in the .PAL files specifies one RGB color value in the form of three number values separated by single spaces. See the following example...0 0 0
All numbers range from 0 to 255. The first number
specifies the red value, the second specifies the green value, and the third specifies the blue value.
In the above example, the first line indicates black, the second is bright red, and the third is bright blue.
255 0 0 0 0 255 |
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