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I have to keep entering custom colors by hand and its a pain! There has to be a better way to do this -- especially on applications that are using the default color picker...

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From any third party text or image editor -- they always use the default Windows color picker -- is there a way to use better version of this for setting colors --

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Maybe if you better defined the process with which you are using the color picker, someone might be able to suggest something. But just to replace the color picker altogether, I don't see a way to replace that particular control (though I could be wrong). – MaQleod Oct 4 '11 at 18:02
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I used Jovian briefly for the ten free color selections it allows you in the trial. I installed it while Eclipse was up and running, because it was a pain trying to copy hex color codes from a web page into the Windows color picker that only takes RGB values. Once Jovian was installed, I didn't have to restart Eclipse or anything, I just hit a button to select a color in Eclipse like usual, and the Windows color picker showed up for a second before suddenly disappearing and the Jovian picker was there instead--so I think this is what you're looking for.

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I like Iconico's ColorPic. Its free and works on all versions of windows. The UI is slightly awkward. You have to alt-G (for grab) to toggle capture, move to that pixel and (alt-G) to finalize the capture. Once a color is captured

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