Corona SDK dev tool "EZ Color Picker" for Windows released

Getting Started Announcements
#1

I just released a tool that I hope will be useful to Corona SDK developers out there. EZ Color picker is Win32 app that allows you to select RGB and alpha values via sliders and apply them to both a background and a text object. You can then quickly copy the values and paste them right into any Corona SDK project.

Features:

  • Separately select R, G, B, and Alpha percentage values for both text and background
  • Easy copy of RGBA percentage values that can be pasted directly into your Corona SDK project
  • Allows preview of any font installed on your development computer
  • Allows custom text entry for previewing your own text
  • Compatible with Windows 7/8/10

You can read about it and download it at the Pink Beehive Productions web site.

The download is a fully-functioning demo, but can be activated with a $10 purchased license key. Let me know what you think!

 

David

#2

Its actually nice in a way.

My question is whats the point of buying a code?

–SonicX278

#3

It runs for 5 minutes before shutting down. :slight_smile:

fm

#4

I think your price point is very high for a product which actually comes with most text editors these days in the form of a package/plugin, with more options (colour picker wheel, vs rgb sliders).

Github’s editor Atom has one for instance, that you just right click in the parenthesis of your setFillColor() call, or within a table for instance, pick your colour and what format, and it inserts it right into your code, and that is free. I’ve seen similar things for Sublime too.

Not trying to diminish your sales, nor demean your product, but I had to make the point.

#5

Thanks for your feedback. A few points:

  • I wasn’t aware of the color picker plugin for Atom. I played with it a little bit. It does allow you to paste from a context-sensitive color picker into your project, but annoyingly, it puts “vec3” in front of the parens. Also, that plugin doesn’t allows you to preview the text against a color background with different fonts. So I feel like you’re comparing apples to oranges.

  • regardless of price point, it’s free and completely usable for the first 5 minutes. I find myself going in, cobbling together a background/text/font color combo and get out.

David

#6

I personally didn’t consider the text feature that valuable, as most of the developers I know (myself included) would make such design decisions in Photoshop or alternative software.

Nothing against your tool though, I wish you the best of luck with it.

Cheers

#7

Its actually nice in a way.

My question is whats the point of buying a code?

–SonicX278

#8

It runs for 5 minutes before shutting down. :slight_smile:

fm

#9

I think your price point is very high for a product which actually comes with most text editors these days in the form of a package/plugin, with more options (colour picker wheel, vs rgb sliders).

Github’s editor Atom has one for instance, that you just right click in the parenthesis of your setFillColor() call, or within a table for instance, pick your colour and what format, and it inserts it right into your code, and that is free. I’ve seen similar things for Sublime too.

Not trying to diminish your sales, nor demean your product, but I had to make the point.

#10

Thanks for your feedback. A few points:

  • I wasn’t aware of the color picker plugin for Atom. I played with it a little bit. It does allow you to paste from a context-sensitive color picker into your project, but annoyingly, it puts “vec3” in front of the parens. Also, that plugin doesn’t allows you to preview the text against a color background with different fonts. So I feel like you’re comparing apples to oranges.

  • regardless of price point, it’s free and completely usable for the first 5 minutes. I find myself going in, cobbling together a background/text/font color combo and get out.

David

#11

I personally didn’t consider the text feature that valuable, as most of the developers I know (myself included) would make such design decisions in Photoshop or alternative software.

Nothing against your tool though, I wish you the best of luck with it.

Cheers