ABOUT THIS PRODUCT

SmartColorWidget is a user-friendly color picker widget for Archetypes. It allow quick and easy color selection from 3 different ways:

• HTML color value
• Color table and lightness bar slider
• Hue/Lightness/Saturation fields

The 3 inputs modes are javascript-wired and dynamically change when anything is modified

A demo type is included. Set INSTALL_DEMO_TYPES = 1 in config.py to enable it.

Dependencies

• Plone 2.1/2.5
• Archetypes 1.3.5+

Installation

    1. Install as usual in your Products folder
    2. Install in your Plone Site with the Quickinstaller tool
    3. In your custom Archetype, add:

       from Products.SmartColorWidget.Widget import SmartColorWidget

    4. Use it like a regular field/widget in your Type's Schema.
    Example:

        StringField('color', 
                    default='#00FFFF',
                    searchable=0,
                    required=0,
                    widget=SmartColorWidget(
                         label='Color',
                       )
        ),

Credits

This product was built by the Ingeniweb team

Thanks

• The jQuery team, for their powerfull javascript library
• EasyRGB, for the colors transformation formulas
• Roland Fasching for the widget idea from ATColorPickerWidget