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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
- HarmonyColorWheel, A ColorWheel which allows defining multiple colors, separated by hue
- GradientListModel, A QAbstractListModel used to list gradients (useful for combo boxes, list views and the like)
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. 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
mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make QtColorWidgetsPlugin && make install
Latest Version
The latest version of the sources can be found at the following locations:
- https://gitlab.com/mattia.basaglia/Qt-Color-Widgets
- git://gitlab.com/mattia.basaglia/Qt-Color-Widgets.git
License
LGPLv3+, See COPYING. As a special exception, this library can be included in any project under the terms of any of the GNU liceses, distributing the whole project under a different GNU license, see LICENSE-EXCEPTION for details.
Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Mattia Basaglia dev@dragon.best