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HexExplorer

HexExplorer

by Daniel Frost

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Move the Sliders, see the colour, read the Hexadecimal representation. Try the colors with the apps background and text color settings.

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About HexExplorer

App description
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Move the Sliders, see the colour, read the Hexadecimal representation. Try the colors with the apps background and text color settings.

This is a fairly simple program that might prove useful to anyone unfamiliar with the 16 million or so colours available to them when programming in any computer language that uses the hexadecimal numbers to represent the three colour components of the RGB system.

Each colour component has 256 different values (from 0 to 255) and can be 'mixed' together to make pretty much any colour in any shade or hue that you could want.

The original developer made the app as a learning exercise for him to see how straightforward or not it was to program in QML. He wanted to use the Ubuntu SDK mainly using mainly Qt Quick Controls instead of 'Ubuntu Components 1.3' (although still present to make use of 'i18n.tr()' functions). This should theoretically make the app more easily portable to other platforms.

Re-release purposes
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The original creator does not maintain the app anymore. The main purpose of this re-release is to keep the app maintained. One fundamental change is the switch to a pure qml type app dropping the unneeded c++ parts. This does make the app architecture independed. It is also implementing back the Ubuntu Touch look and feel with header, as well as adding some features and fixing some bugs. The code is migrated from github to gitlab.

Recent Changes

v2.2.5
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v2.2.4
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v2.2.3
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v2.2.2
- fixed: contributor string not being fully translatable
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v2.2.1
- improved: positioning of slider labels slightly better
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v.2.2.0
- add: all RGB color values to slider labels
- add: option to sync all three sliders in main screen

v2.1.6
- fixed: typo in about page
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v2.1.5
- updated: translations and added several languages, many thanks to all translators!

v2.1.4
- improved: use UBports Hosted Weblate for translation services, thanks to Weblate for providing us with a free service
- improved: some spelling, thanks to @kingu
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v2.1.4
- improved: use UBports Hosted Weblate for translation services, thanks to Weblate for providing us with a free service
- improved: some spelling, thanks to @kingu
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!

v2.1.3
- add focal support

v2.1.2
- update: Dutch and French translations, thanks to @Vistaus and @Anne17

v2.1.1
- fix: visibility issues in landscape

v2.1.0
- add: button to quickly swap text and background color
- add: check to avoid possible low contrast between text and background
- add: color initials to sliders
- fix: set initial slider colors

v2.0.0.
- add: migrate the app to Gitlab
- add: new maintainer Daniel Danfro Frost
- add: allow copy of hex code
- add: about page
- add: German translation
- fix: made the app arch all instead of being architecture dependend by removing c++ code
- fix: settings behavior
- fix: use UT style header and icons

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This app has been released under the GNU GPL v3 license. It is developed in the open and you can review the source code.

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José M Reyes

Reviewed Jan 18, 2024 for version 2.2.1

Very good app, to get the tone of the colours right, thanks Daniel 👍

43037384

Reviewed Feb 23, 2022 for version 2.1.1

这个更好

gbdomubpkm

Reviewed Feb 19, 2022 for version 2.1.1

Thank you for redesigning this app. The copy hex code function is very useful for me.