Hex Color Picker

[zombie615 9]

Anyone that is looking for a quick hexadecimal color picker via web browser. I use it when I'm coding my website because I code with just "notepad" so its very helpful for that reason.

 

www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp

 

BTW - I'm currently working on an Animal/Nature website for those of you who are animal lovers or tree huggers. I'm going to be adding all kinds of interesting videos, articles, etc.... I will post in the future when its ready for viewing for those interested. Thanks!

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

How archaic.  You should find yourself an HTML editor or a page generator.  Try Kompozer for a WYWIWYG page maker that is elementary but quite usable.  I use Bluefish because Kompozer went out of support on Linux.

[zombie615 9]

What's wrong with using notepad? lol

 

....aside from it taking forever that is the only drawback I see considering it's free.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

All of my software is free.  Notepad is very awkward for writing HTML.  Does it high-light the syntax for you?  Just checked.  It doesn't.

 

You should see if you can find either of the ones I cited.  Do a search on WYSIWYG HTML editors.

[zombie615 9]

So you think if I use a "What You See is What You Get" text editor I will do better with my coding? Cause right now using notepad I'm constantly saving checking saving checking saving checking lol

 

BTW - I looked up bluefish yesterday an I couldn't figure out where to download. The one place I found seemed "fishy" to me cause it said look at these specific codes to make sure you don't get a corrupted download or something like that.

 

A couple years ago I think I remember finding a version of notepad that had a syntax highlighter an stuff.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

You might find this blog helpful.  http://adellefrank.com/blog/review-how-to-use-install-bluefish-text-editor-windows-vista-windows-7

 

Should also work for Windows 8.

 

Note that Bluefish uses GTK and not the Windows default graphics system.  However, it is multiplatform and not a problem.

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

...

A couple years ago I think I remember finding a version of notepad that had a syntax highlighter an stuff.

I think you might be thinking of Notepad++ (free).

It includes a syntax highlighter, supporting various programming languages including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. There are also various options to find and manipulate text from lists and columns. Overall a very useful tool for minor tweaking website code, which you'd find is far easier than Notepad.

 

Getting back to the topic... I personally use Rainbow for Firefox. A great little addon which acts as a hex and RGB colour picker. Apart from this, there's also an inspector tool which can find the hex value of any colour on a web page. This works by analysing the picture on the screen, meaning the hex value doesn't have to be present in a website's code.

 

For example, this is the colour of the blue bar above:

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Like all editors, Bluefish is a religious item.  Once adopted it is hard to get away from it, or talk anyone out of it.

[zombie615 9]

Well I just downloaded that Notepad ++ an honestly it isn't like I remembered. It just caused problems for me an my computer. I tried uninstalling it an it wouldn't let me so I just restored to a point before installing it. I don't know if I should try downloading another "free" editor cause they all seem to encode something into my registry an screw with stuff. Yes, I'm paranoid about keeping my computer 100% clean of everything including temporary internet files lol. I run system cleanup, shredder, disk defrag, virus scan, constant scan, windows update, everything possible everyday before I start using my computer.

 

Than I go an download something like that Notepad++ an it erks me that I can't get rid of it when I want too. So if I don't mind paying for a simple program from a reputable place what would you suggest? mind you I'd like something where I have full control of the code. Not something like dreamweaver that pretty much inserts it for you.

 

I even went through every single folder after I setup the first time an deleted everything that I'd never use. Even the default folders that hold pictures an stuff. I have a whopping total of 12 programs in all installed on my computer. Every single one are needed to run the computer. Anything other than that is gone.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

You had better be a pretty good systems programmer to do that.  I'll bet you are running the never to be sufficiently damned file indexing service.

[zombie615 9]

I'm using WebMatrix 3 now instead of notepad. Any advice on that?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I have two objections:

 

It is a Microsoft Product.

What you get from Microsoft for nothing is worth what you paid.

 

It is likely to use objects that are not portable to other platforms.

[zombie615 9]

Well it probably does have some stuff not portable to other platforms but I'm just using it for the WYSIWYG text editor cause so far its proven to be far superior to that notepad. You really don't like Microsoft do you? lol

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, Microsoft has been a particularly bad actor lately.  What did you think about the release of Windows 8 (and 8.1)?  There are some small items in there that make my blood boil, not the least is the belief that everyone should have an MS tablet.

 

MS best products so far:

DOS 6.1

Windows XP

Windows 7

 

Now if they would just get rid of NTFS, or at least offer an alternative.

[zombie615 9]

What are the small items inside of Windows 8 that make your blood boil? I'm still thinking about going out and pay for the Windows 7 OS cause I'm not sold on this windows 8 just yet.

 

Note - They are dropping support for Windows XP an rumor has it that there could possibly be some type of widespread hacker spree going to too anyone still running that OS.

 

What is the NTFS that you are talking about?

 

I guess if I knew all there is to know about computers my view would change. Since growing up knowing nothing more than the old fashioned windows layout an how to get around on that its kind of hard to just decide to change. They've made it pretty easy for non-computer people to use the computer.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

For example, Windows 8 has made use of the UEFI replacement for BIOS to shut out parallel operating systems on new machines.  It also no longer supports multiple copies of DirectX.  The tablet desktop is also a giant abortion.  The regular desktop for PC users wasn't broken, so why fix it and confuse everyone?

 

NTFS is a hold over from Windows NT.  It is the file system that has been on Windows since then.  Stands for New Technology File System, but I have always believed that NT stands for Not There (yet).  It is an attempt to give larger Master File Tables for larger disks but becomes an utter failure with 64-bit systems and disks over 1 TB.  Time to adopt something more realistic like ext4, which is a true journalling file system not invented by Microshaft.

 

The time for discounting Linux as a specialty operating system has passed.  Some of the current distributions can hardly be differentiated from Windows (7), and there is a wide choice of desktops and file systems.  And like all such software is free to the private user.  It is time to end Microsoft's gluttonous monopoly on software in general.  Even if you purchase a new machine, if it is loaded with Windows you pay about $200 for the software license. 

 

The idea of paying for software is from the 1980s when the cost of software production outstripped the cost of the hardware.  I was in the industry at the time this happened, even for the big boys.  Before that if you bought a big mainframe you got the 20 foot shelf of 2400 foot magnetic tapes that held all the software they had, and they didn't even charge you for the tapes.  Now even the smallest cable and the operating system naked of anything useful is all priced separately.  Go price a COBOL compiler sometime.  You may have a serious shock. 

 

The main reason COBOL is unpopular is that you can't build a compiler for it using a generator because the syntax for COBOL is not context free.  Building such a compiler is very labour intensive and costly.  Building a C++ compiler is only a matter of dumping the context free syntax and semantic rules into a generator and you get an ANSI standard C++ system.  Since both languages are standardized, the computer science crowd would rather use Occam's Razor to produce the simpler.  I rather like COBOL since it was the only high-level language other than FORTRAN when I started out.  Besides how can you argue with a language that allows statements like:

 

compute <symbol> from <expression> rounded on size error perform <overflow routine>.  end compute.

 

The 'on size error' clause causes all kinds of problems for 'computer science' grads.  Eventually they had to bow to the inevitable with the C++ structure try ... catch ... .  This is still context free, but complicates the issue by admitting that code in C++ doesn't always work.

[zombie615 9]

...... You lost me at "for example" lmao

 

So basically $200 of the $549 (with tax) that I paid for this computer went toward the Windows 8 that I'm now thinking about switching out with Windows 7?

 

I don't understand how that can be when the APU inside the machine cost roughly $160 an the Motherboard around $120. Than add in the 8gb stick of ram that's around $30-50 (guessing not sure) Than you calculate the labor an the parts like wires. Add in the 1tb HDD that's another $50 or something like that. Plus the the PSU an the shipping from the factory to the store. The store marks it up to help pay their employees an the stocking fee of having it take up space on a shelf.

 

Did I get a bad deal? I'm confused as hell now.

 

Note - It was priced at $499.99 (USD) on the shelf. Tax was a big killer to the price.

 

Q: Is learning C++ a waste of time than?