ColorChooser

ColorChooser is a lightweight, user-friendly desktop utility for Windows designed to help you pick, visualize, and copy colors.

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Features

• Color Picker: Uses dropdowns for named colors, an eyedropper, and a custom colors box.
• Embed Code: Provides the hex value and how to embed it in a wide variety of programming languages.
• Named-Color Finder: Users can find the nearest named color to any valid RGB hex value.
• PNG Export: Allows for saving a PNG in the chosen color.

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Requirements

The pre-compiled application is designed to run on 64-bit Windows (Windows 10 and newer).

There are no external dependencies or prerequisites. The executable is a self-contained application, which means it includes the .NET runtime and does not require you to have .NET installed on your system.

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How to Use

1. Navigate to the Releases page of this repository.
2. Under the latest release, download the ColorChooser.exe file from the Assets section.
3. Run the downloaded file. No installation is necessary.

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Building from Source

If you prefer to compile the application yourself, you will need the .NET 8 SDK or newer installed.

Using the .NET CLI (Recommended for a Single Executable)

This is the recommended method for creating a single, portable, and self-contained executable, identical to the one provided in the releases.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ianrastall/ColorChooser.git

2. Navigate to the repository's root directory.
3. Run the following dotnet publish command:

   dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true -p:EnableCompressionInSingleFile=true

   This command compiles the application in Release mode, packages it for 64-bit Windows, bundles the .NET runtime, and compresses everything into a single .exe file. The output will be located in the bin/Release/net8.0-windows/win-x64/publish folder.

Using Visual Studio 2022

1. Clone the repository.
2. Open the ColorChooser.sln solution file in Visual Studio.
3. Set the solution configuration to Release.
4. From the menu, select Build > Build Solution. The output will be located in the bin/Release folder inside the project directory.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.