tkcolorpicker 2.1.2

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

Syntax:

askcolor(color="red", parent=None, title=_("Color Chooser"), alpha=False)

Open a ColorPicker dialog and return the chosen color.

The selected color is returned as a tuple (RGB(A), #RRGGBB(AA)) (None, None) is returned if the color selection is cancelled.

Arguments:

• color: initially selected color, supported formats:

  • RGB(A)

  • #RRGGBB(AA)

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

• parent: parent window

• title: dialog title

• alpha: alpha channel suppport

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()