Keywords: INTERNET WWW WEB AUTHORING HTMLHEXADICIMAL RGB BACKGROUND
COLOR
Author's e-mail address: conner@wolfe.net
HTML ColorMeister
version 1.2.5
Created by John Cope (conner@wolfe.net),
ParticleFlux Software
This program is a utility for writing HTML documents (Known as Web Pages) used with Netscape Navigator. ColorMeister originaly started out as a simple Hexadecimal color picker but since then it has taken on a new and tad more complex form. ColorMeister will let you pick the path to a background picture, the Background Color, the Text Color, the Link Color, the Active Link color, and the Viewed Link Color and will generate a
<BODY> statement which can then be selected, copied, and pasted into your page. Also you can have ColorMeister output a text file with the Framwork for a page which uses the body statement. I did this because I usually develop HTML documents from simpletext and It's nice to not have to type out all the tedious stuff like <HTML> and <HEAD></HEAD> so this is handy for me. ColorMeister will use only colors that you've picked when it generates the <BODY> statement so the statement will be more efficient and won't look crappy.
HTML ColorMeister is Freeware. I would appreciate it if you sent me some e-mail telling me what you think about it though (My e-mail address is conner@wolfenet.com <It's Changed since the first release!>). I don't think any of the other HTML color utilities out there are really worth the price and I know for a fact that the authors couldn't have spent all that long on them. So instead of feeling guilty that you haven't paid or felling guilty that you _did_ pay you can use this program without any regrets.
Version History
1.0b: Didn't work. (Had problems passing variables to functions
and some problems with Strings)
1.0: Not released fixed problems and got it to work.
1.1b: First Public Release. Added Page Output and color squares
by colors. Changed about box.
1.2: First Non-Beta Release. Fixed Refresh problems. Fixed bug
that crashed when you hit cancel during Page Output. Fixed
other bugs that cropped up during development. Fixed e-mail
address. It really works!
1.2.1: Due to some bug reports I cleaned it up a bit. Removed
some interface stuff and raised the memory requirements.
This was programmed in FutureBASIC which I'm still
learning so I still am a little shakey when it comes to
memory and stuff. Sorry for all the problems.
1.2.2: Stripped it down a bit more. Got rid of some unused code.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
1.2.3: Still didn't work. Problems reported mainly on PPC's and
Quadra 950's.
1.2.4: Worked because I removed the color routines to see if it
worked without them.
1.2.5: To my surprise, It Works! My #1 Beta tester surprised me.
Well after a couple of revisions it seems to be in good
working order. I added menu items for 'Generate' and
'Output Page' and 'Print' which is not currently
implemented.
Version 1.3: As far as I can tell this version works fine. New features include: Menu control, colorpicker starts at previously picked color. Colorpicker appearing of the edge of the screen has been fixed. Now includes balloon help. Unfortunatly the 'Print' menu is still disabled because I'm still not sure how I'm going to implement it.
Version 1.3.5: Preview window now implemented! Not fully tested but It should work allright.
