HexCode(R) Version 1.20
Copyright (C) 1997 Ronen E. Rozner
All Rights Reserved
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Have you ever developed HTML pages and found out that once in a while you need to use a certain color, only you don't remember its basic colors values, and you can't convert it to the hexadecimal format ?

Well, your rainy days are over because "HexCode" is here.

1. Comments, Notes, Bugs and Suggestions
2. What is "HexCode" ?
3. How to use "HexCode" ?
  3.1 Blending a color.
  3.2 Copying a Pasting the Hexadecimal number
  3.3 Choosing and Creating a Custom color
  3.4 Zooming on and Capturing a color
  3.5 Other Feature

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1. Comments, Notes, Bugs and Suggestions
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Since it's NOT the first version  release (the first ones were used in my work - before I decided to distribute it), I don't belive there will be any bugs. Eve though, if you encounter any, or have any comments and suggestions on "HexCode", I will be happy to hear from you about them. Feel free to write me about any thing to:
Ronen E. Rozner
frisron@netvision.net.il

But not only on bugs, suggestions, and comments. I would like to have a list of ALL users of "HexCode: for future reference (and pride). All registered users will be granted FREE support and upgrades when they come out - so please write to me.

2. What is "HexCode" ?
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"HexCode" is an idea I came up with while I was learning HTML code. Through all the tutorials I read, I always encountered the problem of finding out which Hexadecimal value is a certain color.
The Hexadecimal value of a color is in the format of "#RRGGBB" where R=Red, G=Green and B=Blue. Each value is the Hexadecimal representation of the range value of 0 to 255.

Uses for that format are: <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FF8000" VLINK="#FF0000">, <FONT COLOR="#008000"> and so on.

Some textual HTML editors (such as Ken Nesbitt's "WebEdit") insert Hexadecimal codes in the HTML code. The problem is more noticable when you want to pick a color from another application or a bitmap viewed in another window.

3. How to use "HexCode" ?
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After Unzipping the HexCode.zip file into your directory, You will have 4 files:
1. HexCode.exe (application)
2. HexCode.dat (hold the custom color you define)
3. Hexcode.ini  (regular ini file)
4. HexCode.txt  (this file)
Create a shortcut to hexcode.exe and run it.

3.1 Blending a color
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Use the 3 Scroll bars to blend your one color. The decimal and Hexadecimal values will change as you slide the Scroll bars. The color rectangle will also change its color as you slide the Scroll bars.


3.2 Copying a Pasting the Hexadecimal number
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When you reach the desired color, use the Edit | Copy (Ctrl+C) command to copy the Hexadecimal color format, and then use the Paste command to paste it into your HTML code.
You can also Copy a value from HTML code into "HexCode" to see what color comes out.

3.3 Choosing and Creating a Custom color
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The menu item Color | Custom (Ctrl+O) open the Colors common dialog, to let you choose from a color palette. Click the "Define Custom Colors" button  to define a custom color and save it ("Add to Custom Colors" button) into the 16 custom colors available. When you exit "HexCode", the custom colors you defined are saved.

3.4 Zooming on and Capturing a color
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"HexCode" allows you to zoom in on a portion of the screen, Zoom in and out on it. And most important capture a color from it.
First, move the main view window of "HexCode" (the one with the menus - not the Colors dialog) next to the portion you want to zoom on.
Click and hold the mouse. A view rectangle will appear. Drag the rectangle to the are you want to zoom on. As you move the rectangle the main window of "HexCode" will display what is in the rectangle. Release the mouse when reach the area you want to zoom on.
Slide the Vertical Scroll bar on the main window of "HexCode" up and down to
zoom in and out on the view. 
If you have the pixel with the desired color big enough, choose Color | Capture from the menu (Ctrl+U). The mouse cursor will change to Color picker tool. Now you can click the pixel with the color you want and "HexCode" will display that color with it's values in both RGB and Hexadecimal format.
Copy and Paste that value into your HTML code as describe in section 3.2.

3.5 Other Features
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Menu item Settings | Always on Top, makes "HexCode" stay on top of all other windows open.
Menu items Settings | Save Settings on Exit and Save Settings Now Operate only on the 'Always on Top' option. Although this feature is relatively not used, I decided to leave it for future features.

Have Fun, and don't forget to write to me
Ronen E. Rozner
frisron@netvision.net.il
