Author Topic: NANY 2011 Release: Color Warlock (Read 190,134 times)

mouser · « **Reply #50 on:** March 22, 2011, 03:00 PM »

hamradio · « **Reply #51 on:** March 22, 2011, 05:00 PM »

Quote from: mouser on March 22, 2011, 03:00 PM

Mentioned on Free Download A Day today!

Neato, thanks, and on that note please see below for a minor but recommended update that I had planned for today.

RECOMMENDED UPDATE:

1. Improved the check for updates dialog code.
2. Optimized how the built-in charts work.

First post for download link or download through the link in the check for updates screen.

hamradio · « **Reply #52 on:** June 13, 2011, 05:38 PM »

RECOMMENDED UPDATE:

1. Made the color chart double buffered which should help decrease loading time for color charts (even more with large ones).
2. Improved the load settings function.
3. A few bugs hopefully fixed.

First post for download link or download through the link in the check for updates screen.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #53 on:** June 13, 2011, 06:13 PM »

Thanks

myarmor · « **Reply #54 on:** August 28, 2011, 01:15 AM »

I just wanted to give my thanks (just what I was looking for), and a minor suggestion/bugreport/whatnot..

At the moment it crashes if placed as a subfolder of "program files" (or in my case "program files (x86)" unless the security restrictions of that
folder is lifted (i.e given write access) because it wants to store settings.dat in the program folder.
After a crash it is tagged in appcompat with "disableuserexceptions".
I'm using W7x64.

Removing it from the appcompat list, giving it write permissions, then it runs ok.

hamradio · « **Reply #55 on:** August 28, 2011, 03:37 AM »

I don't write to outside portions (non application folder) to keep the settings from being wrote in other computers directories when you use it from a USB device. The simple solution is to basically extract programs that don't have installers to a user created folder named My Programs or similar and put extractable applications there for applications that might write to the app folder instead of the users folder. Guess I should attempt to catch it and make a warning of it though, so thanks for bringing it up.

hamradio · « **Reply #56 on:** February 08, 2012, 07:50 PM »

Just thought I would update everyone out there that uses or may want to look into using this program...

Coming soon in the next version...

Click thumbnail to make bigger to see the menu structure and design of the new custom menu...

mouser · « **Reply #57 on:** February 08, 2012, 08:31 PM »

very nice. love the dynamic color swatches.

hamradio · « **Reply #58 on:** February 10, 2012, 05:47 PM »

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED UPDATE:

1. Color chart previews in built-in and custom color chart menus.
2. Custom color chart menu now creates sub-menu groups.
3. A few menu icon designs has been updated.

First post for download link or download through the link in the check for updates screen.

joiwind · « **Reply #59 on:** February 17, 2012, 06:10 PM »

@hamradio - thanks very much for this app., so useful and helpful : just one small problem with the latest version - sometimes when I Maximize the main window I can't change the size any more, it's either Maximized or in the Taskbar. I solved this by deleting the settings.dat file, but as I said this doesn't happen every time ...

hamradio · « **Reply #60 on:** February 17, 2012, 06:57 PM »

If you can track down a pattern I will be more than happy to look into why it is doing that as I am not able to get it to reproduce myself, but it still could be there I just may not be doing the right thing to cause it.

Quote from: joiwind on February 17, 2012, 06:10 PM

@hamradio - thanks very much for this app., so useful and helpful : just one small problem with the latest version - sometimes when I Maximize the main window I can't change the size any more, it's either Maximized or in the Taskbar. I solved this by deleting the settings.dat file, but as I said this doesn't happen every time ...

joiwind · « **Reply #61 on:** February 19, 2012, 10:49 PM »

Quote from: hamradio on February 17, 2012, 06:57 PM

If you can track down a pattern I will be more than happy to look into why it is doing that as I am not able to get it to reproduce myself, but it still could be there I just may not be doing the right thing to cause it.

Quote from: joiwind on February 17, 2012, 06:10 PM
@hamradio - thanks very much for this app., so useful and helpful : just one small problem with the latest version - sometimes when I Maximize the main window I can't change the size any more, it's either Maximized or in the Taskbar. I solved this by deleting the settings.dat file, but as I said this doesn't happen every time ...

Thanks for replying hamradio - I've cracked it : open CW, maximize it, it fills the screen, then reduce it, it goes back to a small window and so on, no problem. Now maximize it and then exit - then open CW again and you'll find that you can't reduce it any more to a small window, the only way is to exit then delete settings.dat.

Hope that helps ?

hamradio · « **Reply #62 on:** February 20, 2012, 12:21 AM »

Ah...when that happens just click the title bar and drag it down to where you can reach a corner as it starts backup at the size it was and not maximized. I will see about adding a maximize check on shutdown and if it is then invoke maximize on startup of it at some point hopefully soon.

Quote from: joiwind on February 19, 2012, 10:49 PM

Quote from: hamradio on February 17, 2012, 06:57 PM
If you can track down a pattern I will be more than happy to look into why it is doing that as I am not able to get it to reproduce myself, but it still could be there I just may not be doing the right thing to cause it.

Quote from: joiwind on February 17, 2012, 06:10 PM
@hamradio - thanks very much for this app., so useful and helpful : just one small problem with the latest version - sometimes when I Maximize the main window I can't change the size any more, it's either Maximized or in the Taskbar. I solved this by deleting the settings.dat file, but as I said this doesn't happen every time ...

Thanks for replying hamradio - I've cracked it : open CW, maximize it, it fills the screen, then reduce it, it goes back to a small window and so on, no problem. Now maximize it and then exit - then open CW again and you'll find that you can't reduce it any more to a small window, the only way is to exit then delete settings.dat.

Hope that helps ?

hamradio · « **Reply #63 on:** February 20, 2012, 10:09 PM »

I have fixed it but not uploaded it yet. When I do upload the next version it will detect maximized state and save the size it was before it was maximized and it will also launch maximized if it was maximized and you can click the form maximize button to take it down to the size it was before it was maximized without having to drag the form.

joiwind · « **Reply #64 on:** February 20, 2012, 11:09 PM »

Quote from: hamradio on February 20, 2012, 10:09 PM

I have fixed it but not uploaded it yet. When I do upload the next version it will detect maximized state and save the size it was before it was maximized and it will also launch maximized if it was maximized and you can click the form maximize button to take it down to the size it was before it was maximized without having to drag the form.

Wow ! That was a long phrase !

Thanks hamradio

hamradio · « **Reply #65 on:** February 22, 2012, 07:25 PM »

GENERAL UPDATE:

1. Ability for the program to open maximized if it was closed maximized and restore to the pre-maximized state with the restore down button.
2. New color chart information viewer built-in to main form.

First post for download link or download through the link in the check for updates screen.

hamradio · « **Reply #66 on:** April 27, 2012, 07:28 PM »

A public beta of Color Warlock 2.0.0 build 10 is ready for testing.

Note 1: It has a new color chart file format of xml therefore see note 2 as to why you will not see the old format in the custom menu.
Note 2: It will save your .ccf file to a .xml (while keeping the .ccf file) as soon as you use the import function in the chart builder.
Note 3: Check out the eyedropper tool as it has a change that should help you even more.
Note 4: It does save and load from a xml settings file now as well therefore you will have to fix your settings most likely.)
Note 5: It will not show up on the normal check for updates in the program cause it is being considered beta.

mouser · « **Reply #67 on:** April 27, 2012, 07:29 PM »

Nice work

cranioscopical · « **Reply #68 on:** April 27, 2012, 09:03 PM »

Nice work indeed!
A glitch here, though. If I drag the crosshairs from chart-builder/screen to my secondary monitor I get an unhandled exception.

hamradio · « **Reply #69 on:** April 27, 2012, 09:08 PM »

You will need to give me more info than that if I am to try to fix that as I do not have a multi monitor setup.

mouser · « **Reply #70 on:** April 27, 2012, 09:33 PM »

No errors here.

joiwind · « **Reply #71 on:** April 27, 2012, 09:59 PM »

No problems here either 'til now and I'm liking the new features

Thanks hamradio.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #72 on:** April 28, 2012, 01:24 AM »

Quote from: hamradio on April 27, 2012, 09:08 PM

You will need to give me more info than that if I am to try to fix that as I do not have a multi monitor setup.

Apologies!

The error message is

The error message is:

Parameter must be positive and < Width

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Parameter must be positive and < Width.
Parameter name: x
at System.Drawing.Bitmap.GetPixel(Int32 x, Int32 y)
at ColorWarlock.frmColorPicker.ScreenEyeDropper_MouseMove(Object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseMove(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5448 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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ColorWarlock
Assembly Version: 1.5.0.1
Win32 Version: 1.5.0.1
CodeBase: file:///E:/Winsupps/Color%20Warlock%20%5BDoCo%5D/ColorWarlock.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5446 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5453 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5458 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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Accessibility
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Accessibility/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Accessibility.dll
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cranioscopical · « **Reply #73 on:** April 28, 2012, 02:49 AM »

All fixed now, thanks to HamRadio

hamradio · « **Reply #74 on:** May 09, 2012, 05:52 PM »

MAJOR UPDATE

1. Changed the file format to xml. Use converter in chart builder to convert version 1.x files.
2. Completely rewrote the chart builder eyedropper to include a magnified image of where the cursor is over.
3. Loading the program should be faster now due to a change made in how it handles the program settings.
4. Changed the menu and status strip style.

Note: It will save your .ccf file to a .xml (while keeping the .ccf file) as soon as you use the import function in the chart builder.