How to start color picking on Mac OS?

Question

I am a complete newbie to Mac. It so happened that now I am working on it. I have a strange problem - I cannot find how to start the Default Color Picker?

Answer 1

You can enable the color picker in the application by following the guide here:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060408050920158

From the manual:

Just run AppleScript (Applications → AppleScript Editor) and enter this text:

choose color

Now save it as an application (File → Save As and set the "File Format" pop-up window in the application), and you are done

Answer 2

You can call the color picker from any Cocoa application (TextEdit, Mail, Keynote, Pages, etc.) by pressing Shift-Command-C

The following article explains in more detail the use of Mac OS Color Picker.

http://www.macworld.com/article/46746/2005/09/colorpickersecrets.html

Answer 3

Take a look at the link to the NSColorWell class.