Sketchshare Colour/Color Picker Open Sourced

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Sketchshare Colour/Color Picker Open Sourced

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Started 1 year ago by creativewax
Latest reply from JeremieDeNoob

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creativewax
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This is still a work in progress and I need to take out the project specific things I have in there that are related to our app, but its working well and is based on CCControl http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/19915 (by YannickL) to dispatch events through Cocos2D, we are going to put the project onto github but in the mean time here is the project as a zip, http://www.creativewax.co.uk/private/SketchShareColourPicker.zip

you can see the colour picker in action on a preview video of our Sketchshare app here (at 0:53)

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currently optimised for iPad

This isn't built the best way at the moment, but after people beta testing the app and people seeing the video there was a lot of requests for people to see how we did the colour picker, so being nice we thought we would just put it up for all to enjoy :D

feedback and improvements most welcome ;)

twitter - @creativewax

Posted 1 year ago #
abitofcode
Administrator

The colour pickers great for kids or people with fat fingers as it has around 3.141 times the space for the color selection over your standard colour pickers (soooooo 2010 ;)

It'd be nice to coordinate a set of polished CCControls to speed up prototyping, I'm sure the guys working on the layout tools could add support for them into their apps. @YannickL's target action approach mirrors apple's and is less likely to confuse people new to cocos2d but familiar with UIKit who just want to add some controls to their app.

Posted 1 year ago #
rwenderlich
Member

Dude, you guys rule! Thanks so much for making this available to the community. It is one of the best color pickers I've ever seen! Very fun and intuitive way to pick your favorite color. Again best of luck with SketchShare! :]

Posted 1 year ago #
abitofcode
Administrator

@rwenderlich Cheers! We have plans to explain how more of the app works. Thanks for the great Game Centre tutorials I got to see my kids grow up a little more rather than pouring over apples documentation ;)

Posted 1 year ago #
slycrel
Member

Thanks for sharing this, it's awful generous of you! Looks very good!

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
cocos
Member

@abitofcode Thank you for sharing! And all the best with the app in App Store!

Posted 1 year ago #
YannickL
Member

@abitofcode Thank you for sharing!
I'm glad to see that the CCControl extension can be useful for other projects. If you need any supports (or any ideas) for this don't hesitate (I think to add the block management in addition to the target-action pairs).

I take this opportunity to congratulate you for the work you did with SketchShare, it's very impressive. Good luck for the future!

Posted 1 year ago #
breskit
Member

Thanks for sharing folks. It looks great. I think I may try and use this in one of my apps now!

Posted 1 year ago #
Appicus
Member

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
abitofcode
Administrator

Thanks for all the positive feedback, we've had quite a lot of interest and for a colour picker to be described as fun, mission accomplished :)

I've been thinking a little more about a set of components that could both enable rapid prototyping and give a foot up anyone who wants to start building their own. One approach could be to build something along the lines of Keith Peters (@bit101) Minimal components http://www.minimalcomps.com/ we could even make use of the existing MinimalCompDesigner http://www.bit-101.com/MinimalDesigner/

Life's too short to reinvent the button :)

Posted 1 year ago #
timTheMystic
Member

Thanks for sharing. Looks like a could use this in my upcoming game editor.

Posted 1 year ago #
object2.0
Member

Just great :) Thanks for sharing.

Posted 1 year ago #
YannickL
Member

Just to tell you that I added the colour picker into the CCControlExtension repo: https://github.com/YannickL/CCControlExtension ;)
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/19915#post-141779

Posted 1 year ago #
sue602
Member

it is useful , great work !

Posted 1 year ago #
Panajev
Member

Hey Yannick, your class needs some upgrade for Cocos2D 2.0, I will fork your repo and ask for a merge if the changes are limited to retro-compatible things such as the initWithBatchNode being removed and having initWithTexture instead which I think are compatible with Cocos2D 1.x too IIRC.

Posted 1 year ago #
Panajev
Member

Ok, done.

Edit: unless Riq backported the CCDirector changes to Cocos2D 1.x too, the changes I made regarding the Touch Dispatcher might not work on Cocos2D 1.x, but I haven't checked it sorry :(.

Posted 1 year ago #
YannickL
Member

Hey @Panajev!

I have not taken the time to work with Cocos2d 2.0 yet, so that's why the extension is not compatible. :!
Thank you for your changes, I'll check/test them tomorrow. If your changes are not retro-compatible may be a gles20 branch will be more appropriated to start (I'm not familiar with git, so I think I'll make some mistakes).

Best,
Yannick

Posted 1 year ago #
wybielacz
Member

@YannickL, @Panajev

Does CCControlColourPicker work with Cocos2d 2.0? I am using the latest version and my app crashes every time when I open the scene with the CCControlColourPicker on this line:

CCControlColourPicker *colourPicker = [CCControlColourPicker colorPicker];

Any ideas?

Posted 1 year ago #
RRdaS
Member

Just a question...

Is there any easy way to disable the colourpicker while it is kept in the screen?

Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
YannickL
Member

@wybielacz I created a gles20 branch on github with a Cocos2d-2.0-beta2 example (https://github.com/YannickL/CCControlExtension/tree/gles20).
I fixed the problem and it should work correctly now (If you have any problem don't hesitate to post an issue).

@RRdaS I fixed the issue. To enabled/disabled the colour picker you just have to set the enabled attribute like that:
yourcolorpicker.enabled = NO;

Posted 1 year ago #
wybielacz
Member

@YannickL
Thank you! Working perfectly now :)

Posted 1 year ago #
RRdaS
Member

@YannickL, thank you very much for the correction.

Posted 1 year ago #
JeremieDeNoob
Member

Is there a good way to scale it to different sizes? its nice for ipad, but on iphone it is too big...

Posted 1 year ago #
JeremieDeNoob
Member

Also I Am having issues adding the colorpicker to a cclayercolor, but none adding it to a layer... for some reason when i add the layer to the layercolor, i can see the big white right from the colorpicker but none of the colors actually show up... any ideas?

Posted 1 year ago #

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