kind of a n00b - suggestions on how to dev this app?

quiksan

quiksan

awesomer...
I haven't been able to find an app that does this - or exactly this I guess:

I'd like to develop a small app that would reside up in the menu bar (near the airport signal, displays, clock, etc), and all it would do, would have a small square that showed what your cursor was over (anywhere on the screen), the HEX color code of that spot, and the X/Y coordinates of the mouse pointer.

does that make sense?

I'm a web developer, so most of my dev experience is just using JSPs and more web-based coding. (I've done a little in java, but not enough to be effective) And I've never done any coding on an apple platform, so I'm wondering what the best language would be to do this in, and even a push in the right direction to get started.
thought this might be a 'fun' way to get into coding for Apple platforms...

any comments, suggestions, or whatever are welcomed.
thanks in advance for any help!
 
There's a few magnifier widgets on the Konfabulator site. These are written in JavaScript/XML so as a web developer you shouldn't have any trouble interpreting them.
Then, of course, there's the magnifier in the Apple Developer Tools.

I think Cocoa would be the best language to look at for this one.
 
thanks for the reply.
yeah - I've come across a few things that do this or do that, but not this AND that...catch my drift? ;)

i just thought it would be an interesting project to attempt, more than anything. I have a hard time doing a project when there's no practicality behind the end product. Or no use for what you're doing. So when I actually think of something I could use, it's usually the vehicle I use to get me to try something new.

I'll give cocoa a try and see what I can come up with. (will also look for those widgets and see what they've got going on...)

thanks again!
 
Wouldn't the DigitalColor Meter in the Utilities folder do the same thing? It displays the mouse coordinates and the value of the color that the pointer is over in several different formats, including HEX 8- and 16-bit.

Of course, I envy you if you're attempting to code this just for the sake of coding it!
 
"I was just checking the specs on the rotary girder....I'm retarded!"

well don't I feel silly? I didn't even realize there was an option in the prefs to display the coordinates!!

duh. ah well.

I still think I'll give it a go, and see if I can code an app that would do this in the menu bar.
cuz I have SOOO much free time...maybe in a year I'll post my creation...
;)

thanks for the enlightenment El Caca.
 
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