MiniPick Help

INTRODUCTION

MiniPick is a utility for creating and viewing colors. It can be especially useful for programmers and web designers because you can create or view colors in several modes including RGB, HSV, HTML, Hex, Long, and VBHex. As well, MiniPick allows you to grab any color from your screen and use it in your work.

SELECTORS

HSV Select this radio button to use the HSV (Hue, Saturation and Value) sliders to create your color.

RGB Select this radio button to use the RGB (Red, Green and Blue) sliders to create your color.

Inp Select this radio button to use the "input" pane of the window to enter (or paste from another application) your color's numeric values.

Sliders After selecting either RGB or HSV, drag the appropriate slider(s) left or right to create your color.

Input Boxes When RGB is selected, you may enter a value into each of the three boxes to the right of the RGB sliders. The value must be 0 to 255.

Mini-Swatches Displayed to the left of each slider, these mini-swatches display the associated color or color element and change as the slider is dragged.

RESULTS

Results Regardless of how you set the current color, it is displayed in the Results section in five different numeric modes: Hex, RGB, HTML, Long, and VBHex.

Copy Click the appropriate "Copy" button to copy the associated numeric color value to the clipboard. You can then paste this value into any program.

INPUT

RGB Select this radio button to input RGB numeric values. You can use a comma to separate the numbers if you desire. For example, you can enter (or paste) "20,30,200" or "20 30 200"

Hex/HTML Select this radio button to input Hex/HTML numeric values. Values must be 6 digits, 0-F for each digit. Black is "000000" and white is "FFFFFF", where the digits are broken into 3 pairs - (red green blue) FF FF FF (do not use spaces)

Long Select this radio button to input Long numeric values. Values must be 0 (black) to 16777215 (white)

VBHex Select this radio button to input VBHex numeric values. Values must be 6 digits, 0-F for each digit. Black is "000000" and white is "FFFFFF". VBHex values are in inverse order from Hex values so that Orange in Hex is "FF7E26" but in VBHex is "267EFF"

CONTROLS

Color Swatch This swatch displays the current color and changes as you enter numbers or drag sliders.

Pick Click this button to use your cursor as a color picker. Once clicked, move your cursor anywhere on your screen. The color swatch will be updated to show the current color under your cursor. Hit the "Esc" key, or click the left mouse button to "grab" the desired color.

On Top When checked, the MiniPick window will stay on top of all other windows.

Prefixes When checked, MiniPick will display the extra color information characters (commas, etc.) in the "Results" pane. For example, "20,30,200" instead of "20 30 200".

Tips When checked, popup tips will be displayed when your cursor hovers over buttons.

Help F1 Display the online help. Click this button or hit the F1 key.

About Click this button to open a window with information about MiniPick, including a link to our web site.

WEB SITE

If you have questions that cannot be answered in this help file, would like to make a bug report or enhancement request, please visit our web site.

You can get to our website by clicking this link: www.FreewareOnly.net