Lua: Colour Swatch tool

[ARkaine2]

daniellumertz,

Thanks a lot for answer.
It works and even remembers/saves last used settings/preset.

[Scar'dBrow]

Originally Posted by airon

Colour Swatch window
for context sensitive colouring of tracks or items

I recommend getting this script with the ReaPack extension. That version is stable, and will update automatically when you sync, should anyone update it.


You can also download the script here: https://stash.reaper.fm/v/24328/Colour%20Swatch.lua
But you need to install that by hand.
Requires Reaper 5.0 or higher.


Current version:
v1.61 (2016-06-15)
+ spk77: fixed colour swatch reset

1.60 (2016.06.11)
- fixed Reset function
- larger window with more colour choices, hopefully covering most needs
Don't forget you can change the default preset to suit your needs. There is some help text included.

Written by Airon, SPK77, Heda, Evil Dragon and all the folks who contributed ideas, criticism and bug reports.

• Will remember the state it was left in the next time the window is opened again.
• Can be reset to defaults by clicking on the text in the upper middle "Reset"
• Detects the selection focus and indicates this in the top row with a TRACK or ITEM text highlighted in red
• CONFIG options(edit script to change these):
  one_off_colour_change - if set to true, will close the colour swatch window after the first colour change
  move_window_to_mouse - if set to true, will reposition the window where the mouse is after opening the window and RESET
  
• SHIFT + Right-Click + drag = Upper Saturation
• CTRL + Right-Click + drag = Lower Saturation
  
• ALT + Right-Click + drag = Upper Luminosity
• Right-Click + drag = Lower Luminosity
• Colour Gradient for selected tracks or items
  CLICK on first colour, then CTRL(Cmd on OSX)+CLICK on second colour

Great toolbar icon by Hopi:
To install, copy it in to your data/toolbar_icons directory in the Reaper resource directory. Click on Options/Show Reaper resource path... to get to that.


How to install

Place in script directory.
First time users need to locate this via Options / Show Reaper resource path in Explorer/ Finder.

Then open the Action List window (Actions / Show Action list...) and hit the Load button next to Reascript:, and select the script file. Then you can activate it either from the action list window with the Run button, or bind it to any key, toolbar button, midi note or midi message.

My Apologies and any help would be most appreciated. I know how to run the script, set a keyboard shortcut and such. How to I get the various color palettes to work in conjunction with the script. Placing in the the Data/toolbars folder as the instruction suggests does nothing. It guest there is an assumptions that any user would know what to do next.

In reading the post, this appears to be a friendly, helpful, and tightly knitted community. May I suggest that instruction in the future be published from the novice point of view. I'm sure it will help in increasing Reaper's popularity as "THE BEST" DAW. I believe that it is.

Thank you.

[aklo sabbaoth]

Hi there! is it possible to substitute the default swatch for a custom PNG? and how could it be? Thanks in advance.

[airon]

That would be pretty neat.

That requires scanning the bitmap for the colour values where the mouse currently is. The script does not do that, but anyone is free to modify this script and likely all its derivatives.

Keep in mind that there are other colour swatch tools as well.

For example, Rodilab Color palette is a good one to try as well:

https://forums.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=2432441

[ARkaine2]

Is it possible to customize colors in this palette (with "squares", color "slots" or what is that)?