Deep - Color editor for SONAR teaser

You may have noticed that I'm designing a new tool for SONAR user... Work name of the utility is Deep.
Here's a little presentation of color preferences editor. In my opinion its easy to use, fast and flexible!  

• You can sort Screen Elements by name or by color.
• Filter easily unwanted items from the list.
• Save color set in SONAR's native  Color Set File (*.clr) format.
• Import and Export Colors to and from system registry.
• Support for all colors SONAR allows customizing.
• Screen element column foreground and background colors can be customized freely. This white on darker blue theme was just one of my tests... 
• Element colors are visible in the list. You can resize cells to see how color looks like in larger area.
• Supports all language and bit versions.
• May support older SONAR versions, too!  Not tested but I see no reason why this wouldn't work with them.

One more note: in the up left there's a text box you can use to filter the list. In this example I wrote 'fore' to show only screen elements that contain word 'fore' in their names. By clearing the textbox you see all elements. I claim you find the color you were looking for MUCH faster with this little utility than with the standard color preferences dialog in SONAR.  



There are eight custom colors you can set to context menu. 
In the following screen capture I went to define a custom color:



You can type color code directly in the cell using the standard HTML format:




Window can be stretched to any size. Columns and rows can be resized. 
Program remembers your settings for the next time.



I hope you will enjoy Deep's Color editing window as much as I do! 
Release date is somewhere in the future. I have to polish other parts of the program (Key Bindings Editor is the main concern) and test it throughly enough before release. 


EDIT: 
Formatting - forum software is &/#%%¤.


EDIT2: 
Added features.

<whew>...

That's a mighty big add to an already big endeavor... When did you do this one? No sleep last night? ;-)

Keni

You are kidding me right? This is not true. It can't be. No way. There has to be a catch. You just want to rub it in as to how much we want that sort of utility.

Very, very cool. Will it be able to customize those color events that X1 took away? Like highlighted track, etc.?

Thank you!!

Mahlon

panup

Keni


<whew>...

That's a mighty big add to an already big endeavor... When did you do this one? No sleep last night? ;-)

Keni

I've been building it in my mind for the last couple of days. Yesterday I abandoned  the treeview design and decided to use one, simple list. I did this because I got stuck with the Key Bindings Editor. :-) I'm just adding Color Set File Import feature, it's ready in a few minutes... 

Yeah... I know what you mean... I too jump to another project when I hit a roadblock on the one I'm currently working...

I hope you fall into the fix for the Key Bindings Editor soon... It sure gets me frustrated when I get stuck on one for too long... ;-)

Thanks!
Keni

rainmaker1011


Nice!

Is it possible for you to make clips transparent? Just curious...

SONAR does not support alpha channel (needed for transparency). 
Make Feature Request of 'alpha channel support for colors'...