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UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender #105324

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Harley Acheson commented 2023-03-01 01:16:11 +01:00
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This adds a new Ghost function, GHOST_GetPixelAtCursor, that allows
picking colors from outside of Blender windows. This only has an
implementation for the Windows platform, but this should allow other
platforms to also do so if possible.

Seems to work as advertised. Gets the same colors as Gimp does. It doesn't show the eyedropper mouse cursor outside of our windows, but that does not seem (normally) possible. Other apps that pick outside of their borders also show the regular pointer cursor while doing so.

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This adds a new Ghost function, GHOST_GetPixelAtCursor, that allows picking colors from outside of Blender windows. This only has an implementation for the Windows platform, but this should allow other platforms to also do so if possible. --- Seems to work as advertised. Gets the same colors as Gimp does. It doesn't show the eyedropper mouse cursor outside of our windows, but that does not seem (normally) possible. Other apps that pick outside of their borders also show the regular pointer cursor while doing so. ![Eyedropper.gif](/attachments/4896bda7-68ed-44ab-b1d1-394f68be32fb)
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Harley Acheson commented 2023-03-01 01:18:52 +01:00
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I started this in response to a shout-out from @pablovazquez on this week's Blender Today episode. He mentioned that it might be nice for me to get this working on Windows.

I started this in response to a shout-out from @pablovazquez on this week's Blender Today episode. He mentioned that it might be nice for me to get this working on Windows.
Harley Acheson commented 2023-03-01 01:44:24 +01:00
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Looks like mouse capture only works when a mouse button is held down. This why I can set "no drop" cursor for area join when outside the window, but can't show "eyedropper" cursor here.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setcapture

Looks like mouse capture only works when a mouse button is held down. This why I can set "no drop" cursor for area join when outside the window, but can't show "eyedropper" cursor here. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setcapture
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Harley Acheson commented 2023-03-01 23:56:00 +01:00
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Blender Bot commented 2023-03-01 23:56:03 +01:00
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Package build started. Download here when ready.

Package build started. [Download here](https://builder.blender.org/download/patch/PR105324) when ready.
Harley Acheson changed title from WIP: UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender (W32) to UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender (W32) 2023-03-08 00:06:47 +01:00
Harley Acheson force-pushed Eyedropper from a32f5fed22 to e8831987b7 2023-03-11 16:33:19 +01:00 Compare
Harley Acheson changed title from UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender (W32) to UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender 2023-03-11 16:34:10 +01:00
Harley Acheson commented 2023-03-12 02:45:57 +01:00
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Harley Acheson changed title from UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender to WIP: UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender 2023-03-16 16:33:21 +01:00
Harley Acheson commented 2023-03-16 16:35:17 +01:00
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Set to WIP. Will check this weekend to see if the access to this should instead be a wrapper in WM_api

Set to WIP. Will check this weekend to see if the access to this should instead be a wrapper in WM_api
Harley Acheson force-pushed Eyedropper from e8831987b7 to d6fe8c8c68 2023-03-16 21:11:44 +01:00 Compare
Harley Acheson commented 2023-03-16 21:12:54 +01:00
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Now using a WM_desktop_cursor_sample_read wrapper around the ghost function.

Now using a WM_desktop_cursor_sample_read wrapper around the ghost function.
Harley Acheson changed title from WIP: UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender to UI: Allow Eyedropper Outside of Blender 2023-03-16 21:13:26 +01:00
Harley Acheson requested review from Campbell Barton 2023-03-16 21:13:48 +01:00
Harley Acheson force-pushed Eyedropper from d6fe8c8c68 to 824ece3f16 2023-03-21 16:21:46 +01:00 Compare
Harley Acheson added this to the User Interface project 2023-04-01 18:00:33 +02:00
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TheRedWaxPolice commented 2023-07-19 18:53:41 +02:00
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Any news on this? Thx...

Any news on this? Thx...
Harley Acheson commented 2023-07-19 21:10:50 +02:00
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Any news on this? Thx...

It's on my wish list for 4.0. It is just in the review queue, but should be a fairly straight-forward one.

> Any news on this? Thx... It's on my wish list for 4.0. It is just in the review queue, but should be a fairly straight-forward one.
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Harley Acheson force-pushed Eyedropper from 8461434275 to a4edce178b 2023-07-31 03:11:06 +02:00 Compare
Brecht Van Lommel requested changes 2023-08-15 20:00:48 +02:00
intern/ghost/GHOST_C-api.h Outdated
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/**
* Get the color of the pixel at the current mouse cursor location
* \param r_color: returned RGB float colors
Brecht Van Lommel commented 2023-08-15 19:54:36 +02:00
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Can you change RGB -> sRGB to clarify the color space. Here and a few other places that repeat the same comment.

Can you change RGB -> sRGB to clarify the color space. Here and a few other places that repeat the same comment.
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source/blender/editors/interface/eyedroppers/eyedropper_color.cc Outdated
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const char *display_device = CTX_data_scene(C)->display_settings.display_device;
ColorManagedDisplay *display = IMB_colormanagement_display_get_named(display_device);
IMB_colormanagement_display_to_scene_linear_v3(r_col, display);
Brecht Van Lommel commented 2023-08-15 19:59:06 +02:00
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Use IMB_colormanagement_srgb_to_scene_linear_v3 instead if the color came from another window.

When doing color picker of for a 3D viewport or render that Blender displays then taking into account the view transform makes sense. But from another window, it seems wrong to me.

Use `IMB_colormanagement_srgb_to_scene_linear_v3` instead if the color came from another window. When doing color picker of for a 3D viewport or render that Blender displays then taking into account the view transform makes sense. But from another window, it seems wrong to me.
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Harley Acheson added 2 commits 2023-08-15 23:29:41 +02:00
buildbot/vexp-code-patch-coordinator Build done. Details
d6307ed222 "RBG" -> "sRGB". Color Management Change.
Brecht Van Lommel approved these changes 2023-08-15 23:47:15 +02:00
Harley Acheson commented 2023-08-16 00:50:13 +02:00
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Harley Acheson merged commit 5741a5d433 into main 2023-08-16 01:14:43 +02:00
Harley Acheson deleted branch Eyedropper 2023-08-16 01:14:57 +02:00
xZaki commented 2023-08-26 21:01:14 +02:00
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Since Blender gets immediately unfocused after using the eyedropper outside of the window, you cannot use it to grab an average color or a gradient for a Color Ramp. Substance Designer lets you pick a gradient with images outside of the window without unfocusing it, so i know it's something possible to do.

Since Blender gets immediately unfocused after using the eyedropper outside of the window, you cannot use it to grab an average color or a gradient for a Color Ramp. Substance Designer lets you pick a gradient with images outside of the window without unfocusing it, so i know it's something possible to do.
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