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OKso I am almost finished with the ColorPicker and thanks to everyone that has helped me...

The one thing I cannot seem to do is to get my program to insert the values into the IDE like the colorpicker tool does...

I thought that the IDE colorpicked might be running as some sort fo DLL and so I included DLL routines in my program...

I use the following but there is no output:
All variables are global.

What am I not doing right?

can DLLs return a string?
have you tried returning the pointer to the string?

The way to accomplish this is to compile your program to an .exe and install it into the IDE using "Tools->Configure Tools". All you have to fill in for fields is the first one, "Commandline:" where you will put the path to your exe, "Name" which will be whatever you like, and "Event" which you should choose "Menu or Shortcut". Here's a sample code that works here, you will want to replace ColorRequester() with your custom color picker: Once you've done this you can click your tool from the tools menu and it will let you select a color, then place "RGB(0,0,0)" into your IDE at the cursor position. (assuming you chose black)

I have the same problem...

We have all to do it :
- scintilla gadget's handle : PB_TOOL_Scintilla
- sendmessage_() with this command #SCI_INSERTTEXT

But an external tool can't send string buffer easily to an other app.

netmaestro wrote:The way to accomplish this is to compile your program to an .exe and install it into the IDE using "Tools->Configure Tools". All you have to fill in for fields is the first one, "Commandline:" where you will put the path to your exe, "Name" which will be whatever you like, and "Event" which you should choose "Menu or Shortcut". Here's a sample code that works here, you will want to replace ColorRequester() with your custom color picker:

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result = ColorRequester()
insert$ = "RGB("+Str(Red(result))+","+Str(Green(result))+","+Str(Blue(result))+")"
scintilla = Val(GetEnvironmentVariable("PB_Tool_Scintilla"))
SendMessage_(scintilla, #EM_REPLACESEL, 0, @insert$)

why can't we use scintilla commands SCI_* ?

why can't we use scintilla commands SCI_* ?

Eddy, I don't know! I tried, and got the same problem as you did, so I switched to a Windows message. Seems like it should work though.

Well it inserts a color... It inserts WHITE (RGB(255,255,255) and will NOT let me choose any other color...

In fact... no matter what I pick the insert button is white and the rgb code is 255, 155, 255....

Off the IDE this works fine.

Will try as standalone... Standalone... Hmmm... If I create EXE in the same directory... it does what is is supposed to do in returning the color to the insert button.

But no output.

As I add it to my tools... output only white???

nope... works from IDE when run but NOT from IDE when called as a TOOL... that is when it returns WHITE

{{UPDATE}}
When I run this tool on its OWN sourcecode it works...

When I run it on ANYTHING ELSE... White is the order of the day...

Is my computer predudiced???

{{UPDATE AGAIN}}

It was a simple PEBKC Error - Reinforced by ID10t Variables!!! I did not Set the working directory in the tools section... I thought the images would be loaded into the program itself when compiled. Have to rethink.

Not so simple.

It has to do with how you load the images into the Image Gadget and tell the mouse what to draw.

to start with:
Does load the images into the program for use... Yay!!!

I modified the BOLD portion so as NOT to confuse the Image Gadget
Image1= CatchImage(#Image_1, ?Image1) where it had been #PB_Any which was misleading the program and is what my image never showed up or returned only WHITE

then I modified the Image Gadget a bit:
theline:
ImageGadget(#Image_1, 6, 12, 597, 523, ImageID(#Image_1),
Had:
Image1 in that spot. So it was agreement that was thunking this apart... Though I do not see whay that wuld not have worked since they referenced the same thing???

I did not need the LoadImage() commands since the program already had them in memory because of Catchimage()

Oh well on to the finish!

Thank everyone for helping me. I know I am slow.