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here comes my feature request. long time known from html editors i wanna ask for the same in the PB editor.

I'm working often with colors in my custom Ui's and if i need to know which color i used many lines above, i must hit the
values back into the color picker. annoying.

I suggest the following action:
If i move the mouse cursor over a color value in the source code, it would be nice when after 500ms of delay time, a small
square pop up and show the color.

see the gif anim.

thanks for realizing!




looking forward

I have written an IDE tool which does exactly this, but it's Windows only (uses API).

It's not public though. I could clean up the code and post it.

kenmo wrote:I have written an IDE tool which does exactly this, but it's Windows only (uses API).

It's not public though. I could clean up the code and post it.

as long this feature is not native, pls clean your code and let me try

comm5 wrote:If i move the mouse cursor over a color value in the source code, it would be nice when after 500ms of delay time, a small square pop up and show the color.

Good idea! +1

as long this feature is not native, pls clean your code and let me try

Try this tool "ColorPreview"
https://github.com/kenmo-pb/tools
If you don't trust the EXE, you can build the source yourself

The instructions are at the top of the source...
Add the EXE as an IDE tool with the "new sourcecode" and "load sourcecode" triggers.
Then next time you create/load, you should be able to preview colors by hovering over them.

thanks. It's working good to me. i'll use it until the feature come true

it would be nice, if the square always pop up in the middle by a color value:




your code follow the cursor in Procedure TrackCursor() and changes the square position if the cursor is moved to another location:



a fixed position would be perfect.