RGB-CAT

RGB Color-Adjustment-Tool

This small java tool enables a fullscreen window filled with a RGB Color.

It includes the following features:

• manually decrease/increase color
• manually set color constants red, green and blue
• set increment step size/color changing interval
• auto increment colors
• changing speed of the auto increment

What is it for?

I wrote this tool to better check gamma curves and color settings of monitors and other screens.

It runs on every device supporting Java and the Eclipse SWT (The Standard Widget Toolkit ) and can be used for all screens able to be attached to those.

Here are a few examples:

• check gamma curves of monitors
• check gamma curves of televisions
• check Ambilight colors
• check screens for defective pixel

Download and installation instructions

1. You need to have Java installed
2. Download the file of your platform from jars/
3. Run the tool with your Java installation. If encountering problems please write a github issue

Installation instructions on the raspberry pi

1. Install Java
2. sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
3. or sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-jdk
4. Install other dependencies with sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni
5. Run the tool with java -jar ...

Manual installation

1. Download/clone this repository
2. Setup your java project and import the source code from 'src/*'
3. Download the Eclipse SWT
4. Add SWT to your project build path

How to control the tool

The tool is controlled via keyboard and reacts to the following mapping:

Key(s) | Action --- | --- | --- 'f' | Toggle fullscreen 'x','q' or 'ESC' | Close program 'Space' or 'Enter/CR' | Pause/Resume auto incrementing colors '-' / '+' | Decrease/Increase color update frequency for the auto increment. Value is given in ms 'Down-Arrow' / 'Up-Arrow' | Decrease/Increase the interval for color changes 'Left-Arrow' / 'Right-Arrow' | Manually decrease/increase color 'w' | Toggle monochrome mode 'c' | Choose color manually from color picker 'r' | Set color to constant 'red' <-> RGB(255,0,0) 'g' | Set color to constant 'green' <-> RGB(0,255,0) 'b' | Set color to constant 'blue' <-> RGB(0,0,255) 'i','h' or 'F1' | Show the help 'u', 'j' | change saturation 'o', 'l' | change brightness

Screenshots

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Releases

• v1.0: first release (2014-04-06)

  • Show color in fullscreen
  • Mode for auto-increasing colors
  • Ability to set color step size and update rate
  • Help menu
  • Control with keyboard shortcuts

• v1.1 (2014-04-11)

  • Color button to choose color manually

• v1.2 (2014-04-13)

  • Added modus to show just monochrome colors (white, grey, black). Keyboard shortcut to toggle: 'w'
  • Added jar file for the raspberry. For install instructions see above
  • Bugfix: when changing update rate very fast, it could lead to a temporary stop of the auto-increasing

• v1.3 (2014-04-24)

  • Bugfix: If the update rate was faster than the gui was able to update itself, the gui was still updating colors, although the auto increment was stopped.
  • Added +x to the jar files to mark them as executable.