This applet is an attempt to port the colour.exe program to
Java. JColorApplet is a color chooser. Part of the code was from
ColorSelect.java in the CoreJava book which implemented basically
the same functionality as colour.exe. Most of the work done was
to convert the Frame application to an applet which uses a dialog
box and in making the layout look right. A tip for those who are
layering and compositing with panels - extend Panel and override
the getPreferredSize method so that the layout manager doesn't
squash your panels. The difference between colour.exe and JColor
is the ability of colour.exe to capture the pixel color of any
spot on the screen. I do not think Java has this capability yet.
Here are the sources to the applet.
JColorDialog.java - this also compiles to a stand alone application.