Color picker...

[PrateekSaxena]

Hello,I am trying to make a color picker in JavaScript. This is how the photoshop and the MSPaint color picker looks-

PhotoShop 7MS Paint

Ok, now what I am wondering is that how it should look? We all know that a color is made up of RGB values. Each of them can have differnet valus from 0 to 255, making it a total 64770 colors. So how do I allow the user to choose the color? How do I show him/her all the colors that aree available in a limited space of say about 250px by 250px :ph34r: . Also could you please tell me how I can convert HEX number into INT and INT numbers into HEX.Thank you very much in advance!

[Webworldx]

Hiya Prateek, i'm a huge fan of this one: http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html, so any basing on that with a more advanced selection feature would be a gem =)When you say hex into int, do you mean hex into rgb or something else?

[jesh]

Here's a hexadecimal to decimal convertor that I put together and use for a number of projects:

function toDec(hex){	if(!hex.match(/^[0-9a-f]+$/i))	{		return NaN;	}		hex = hex.toLowerCase();		var chars = "0123456789abcdef";		var length = hex.length;	var currentDigit = 0, power = 0, sum = 0;		for(var i = (length - 1); i >= 0; i--)	{		currentDigit = chars.indexOf(hex.charAt(i));		sum += currentDigit * Math.pow(16, power++);	}		return sum;}

And there are 16777216 different colors rather than 64770.

[PrateekSaxena]

thanks