ColorPickerPlugin for QtCreator

A color picker plugin to easily insert and modify colors in QtCreator's text documents, inspired by Adobe Brackets.

Features

• Supports the following color formats : rgb, hsv, hsl, QML, GLSL and hex.

Settings

• Available formats can only be those supported by the current text editor. For example, the dialog only proposes Qt.rgba and Qt.hsla formats if you're editing a QML file.

• There are two ways to insert a color in the current text editor : you can press the Return key or just change the color or the format in the color editor.

Build the plugin

Put the folder colorpicker in <QtCreatorSourcesDir>/src/plugins/.

Now open <QtCreatorSourcesDir>/src/plugins.qbs with your favorite text editor and add the project file to the reference list (something like "colorpicker/colorpicker.qbs").

Build QtCreator. That's it.

How to use it ?

Open the Tools menu and trigger the action ColorPicker | Trigger Color Edit, or use Ctrl + Alt + C.

Please note

• This plugin requires C++14 and is developed for QtCreator >= 4.0.0.

• I use Qbs rather than QMake. It seems that there's currently no way to develop a plugin without having the whole QtCreator project opened.

• WIP !