#Custom color wheel picker how to#

Opacity slider to adjust the opacity of the color.

Color wheel for selecting any arbitrary color.

Color picker (eye dropper) which lets you pick a color from anywhere on the screen.

Color table with some predefined colors.

After looking at a couple of different color pickers, I decided to go ahead and implement my own version which would meet these few requirements: I needed a color picker for a project I was working on, and I wanted something different from the standard ColorDialog.

#Custom color wheel picker how to#

You can find more information about how to use YAML files in Gantry 5 in our guide.There are already several articles here on CodeProject describing different types of color pickers, and here is yet another example. Second, it provides fields the theme can hook to, providing the color variable used when the page is rendered.

First, it creates the Feature section in the Gantry Styles administrative panel, as well as the Background and Text color settings you can easily configure from the Gantry 5 Administrator. name: Feature Colorsĭescription: Feature colors for the Hydrogen theme

In this example, the feature.yaml is located in theme/blueprints/styles/. Here is an example of how this would look in the YAML file of a section of a theme. If you want to add it to your theme or particle, you would do so by assigning the administrative input as lorpicker in the associated YAML file. The Transparent button at the bottom of the Color Picker gives you the ability to instantly set 0% opacity while maintaining the original hue should you choose to bring it back at later by sliding the transparency slider back up. In addition to these tools, you also have the ability to adjust the color's opacity setting using the transparency slider located on the far-right side of the Color Picker. This tool is a basic color wheel, a preferred method of color selection by many. Like the Brightness tool, the main area is used to quickly select between colors of the rainbow. Move the slider down to remove color, and up to add to its saturation level. The Saturation tool is a quick and easy way to adjust the saturation of your color. The main area here serves to enable you to quickly navigate between colors.

This is the Brightness tool, giving you the ability to further refine your color selection by adjusting its brightness using the color slider on the right. This tool gives you the ability to select a color based on hue, using the rainbow slider to the right to select a general color and the main area to refine this selection. Gantry 5's Color Picker includes four major tabs, each with its own powerful tool to help you find and refine the color you are choosing. These settings make it easy to quickly configure your color selection to meet your needs. The Color Picker includes five integrated tools including hue, saturation, brightness, opacity, and a color wheel. Gantry 5 includes a new Color Picker which gives you the ability to set colors for a particular element of your theme, a Particle, etc.

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