tkcolorpicker 1.0.1

Color picker dialog for Tkinter

Color picker dialog for Tkinter.

This module contains a ColorPicker class which implements the color picker and an askcolor function that displays the color picker and returns the chosen color in rgb and html formats.

Requirements

• Linux, Windows, Mac

• Python 2.7 or 3.x with tkinter + ttk (default for Windows but not for Linux)

Installation

With pip:

$ pip install tkcolorpicker

Documentation

askcolor(color=”red”, parent=None, title=_(“Color Chooser”)):

Display the color picker dialog and return the selected color in rgb and html format. An empty tuple is returned if the color selection is cancelled.

• color: initially selected color, the following formats are supported

  • RGB (0-255 values)

  • HTML (6-digits)

  • tkinter color names (see http://wiki.tcl.tk/37701 for a list)

• parent: parent window

• title: title of the color picker dialog

Example

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tkcolorpicker import askcolor

root = tk.Tk()
style = ttk.Style(root)
style.theme_use('clam')

print(askcolor((255, 255, 0), root))
root.mainloop()