tkcolorpicker

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Color picker dialog for Tkinter.

This module contains a ColorPicker class which implements the color picker and an askcolor function that displays the color picker and returns the chosen color in RGB and HTML formats.

Requirements

• Linux, Windows, Mac
• Python 2.7 or 3.x

And the python packages:

• tkinter (included in the python distribution for Windows)
• Pillow <https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/>_

Installation

• Ubuntu: use the PPA ppa:j-4321-i/ppa <https://launchpad.net/~j-4321-i/+archive/ubuntu/ppa>__

  ::

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:j-4321-i/ppa
    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install python(3)-tkcolorpicker
  

• Archlinux:

  the package is available on AUR <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-tkcolorpicker>__

• With pip:

  ::

    $ pip install tkcolorpicker
  

Documentation

Syntax:

::

askcolor(color="red", parent=None, title=_("Color Chooser"), alpha=False)

Open a ColorPicker dialog and return the chosen color.

The selected color is returned as a tuple (RGB(A), #RRGGBB(AA)) (None, None) is returned if the color selection is cancelled.

Arguments:

+ color: initially selected color, supported formats:

    - RGB(A)
    - #RRGGBB(AA) 
    - tkinter color name (see http://wiki.tcl.tk/37701 for a list)
    
+ parent: parent window
+ title: dialog title
+ alpha: alpha channel suppport

Example

.. code:: python

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tkcolorpicker import askcolor

root = tk.Tk()
style = ttk.Style(root)
style.theme_use('clam')

print(askcolor((255, 255, 0), root))
root.mainloop()

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