New Color Chooser in JDK 7

Looks like an absolute triumph of clunkiness. Ludicrously oversized, tonnes of wasted space, and still retains that nineties feel.

 It looks the same as it did in -98, so yes, it looks old. And ugly.

This probably falls under the saying: "it's expensive to be poor" but I don't understand why the governance of Java (Sun mostly I guess) isn't more sneaky in these matters.

If they were to poke in JColorChooser, why no make it a contest? The price doesn't have to be a million dollars, but maybe a contract to do 100 hours more? I mean, what a way to get a good programmer/designer team on board!

I and a Sun engineer (Sergey Malenkov) actually did a redesign of the color chooser almost two years year ago. Of course, it was just a design in Photoshop, but anyway, a good programmer would realize it in a couple of days. Tops. I think you would like it, it looked more like in Photoshop.

If you're short of resources (Sun again) you have to be inventive. Touching up a -98 app to Q4 -98 doesn't cut it. IMHO. Unless you have abandoned something, but then you should be frank about that too, so not to inject anger and dispair.

Cheers,
Mikael Grev

For more attractive Color Pickers what about:

• Tim Boudreau's java.net ColorPicker
• Quaqua/Substance LAF JColorChooser
• Xoetrope color wheel

 

Simply adding an alpha component to the existing dialog troubles me though. It could expose developers to bugs they hadnt had to deal with until now. It should really be a new component or have methods to turn it off (off by default?). Changing its contract and function this late in the game is just rude. The problems come from setting components with semi-transparent colors. Unless you *ALSO* set the component in question to be non-opaque (see opaque JComponent property) you will get horrible rendering artefacts due to Swing optimising its painting algorithm.

PS I like Mikael Grev's mock-up, though I'd prefer to be presented with the palette/swatches/color well first and then be able to drill down to the fill-on RGB/HSL.. picker. Either customising a close matching color from the quick picker or creating a new color.

- Richard

I’d like to toss out some more ideas for capabilities of an “ideal” Java color picker:

1. The ability to easily move among different color selection modalities, such as choosing a swatch, selecting a point in a color component space, specifying a numeric component value or mixing colors
2. The ability to select from a set of variants displayed alongside the current color
3. The ability to create color palettes
4. The ability to save custom colors
5. The ability to save custom palettes
6. The ability to undo and redo color adjustments (to facilitate experimentation)
7. The ability to adjust components independently within a graphical depiction of the color component space such that a sample of the currently selected color appears at the point of adjustment

I created a color picker with these capabilities that I use in some of my applications. I also packaged it as an applet if anyone wants to experiment with it. It lacks some of the new Java 7 JColorChooser features including alpha selection and CMYK so it isn’t the “Holy Grail” of Java color pickers. It might, however, be useful fodder for someone setting out on a quest for said Holy Grail.

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This is a great resource to use to put color coded keypads on access control systems and also to color code corresponding websites.  Way to go!