Color Widgets

Here is a color dialog that is more user-friendly than the default QColorDialog and several other color-related widgets

The provided widgets are:

• ColorWheel, An analog widget used to select a color
• ColorPreview, A simple widget that displays a color
• GradientSlider, A slider that has a gradient background
• HueSlider, A variant of GradientSlider that has a rainbow background
• ColorSelector, A ColorPreview that shows a ColorDialog when clicked
• ColorDialog, A dialog that uses the above widgets to provide a better user experience than QColorDialog
• ColorListWidget, A widget to edit a list of colors
• Swatch, A widget to display a color palette
• ColorPaletteWidget, A widget to use and manage a list of palettes
• Color2DSlider, An analog widget used to select 2 color components
• ColorLineEdit, A widget to manipulate a string representing a color

they are all in the color_widgets namespace.

See the gallery for more information and screenshots.

Using it in a project

For QMake-based projects, include color_widgets.pri in the QMake project file. For CMake-based projects, add this as subdirectory, it will be compiled as a library and you can link the required targets to ColorWidgets-qt5. All the required files are in ./src and ./include.

Installing as a Qt Designer/Creator Plugin

The sources for the designer plugin are in ./color_widgets_designer_plugin

Compile the library and install in (Qt SDK)/Tools/QtCreator/bin/designer/ (Qt SDK)/(Qt Version)/(Toolchain)/plugins/designer

cd color_widgets_designer_plugin && qmake && make && make install

Latest Version

The latest version of the sources can be found at the following locations:

• https://github.com/mbasaglia/Qt-Color-Widgets
• git://github.com/mbasaglia/Qt-Color-Widgets.git

License

LGPLv3+, See COPYING Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Mattia Basaglia [email protected]