tkcolorpicker2

Color picker dialog for Tkinter. Forked from original https://github.com/j4321/tkColorPicker but with a locale fix.

This module contains a ColorPicker class which implements the color picker and an askcolor function that displays the color picker and returns the chosen color in RGB and HTML formats.

Requirements

• Linux, Windows, Mac
• Python 2.7 or 3.x

And the python packages:

• tkinter (included in the python distribution for Windows)
• Pillow

Installation

• With pip:

  $ pip install tkcolorpicker2
  

Documentation

Syntax:

askcolor(color="red", parent=None, title=_("Color Chooser"), alpha=False)

Open a ColorPicker dialog and return the chosen color.

The selected color is returned as a tuple (RGB(A), #RRGGBB(AA)) (None, None) is returned if the color selection is cancelled.

Arguments:

• color: initially selected color, supported formats:

  • RGB(A)
  • #RRGGBB(AA)
  • tkinter color name (see http://wiki.tcl.tk/37701 for a list)

• parent: parent window

• title: dialog title

• alpha: alpha channel suppport

Example

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tkcolorpicker import askcolor

root = tk.Tk()
style = ttk.Style(root)
style.theme_use('clam')

print(askcolor((255, 255, 0), root))
root.mainloop()