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Hello Netbeans team, When doing a User Interface (with Swing or with HTML), deciding what color to use is really a hell for a programmer like me. And everybody agree that the majority of programmers are poor on graphics designing. That's why I always have an application like "Color Schemer Studio (http://www.colorschemer.com/)" open everytime I design a Swing application or html with Netbeans. That tool helps me decide what colors to use for my forms and widgets to make a visually appealing swing application. Without that tool, I found myself wasting many hours deciding what combination of colors to use for my Application. Wouldn't it be nice and cool and developer-friendly if the Netbeans IDE has a built-in tool like "Color Schemer Studio"? I wanted to request this feature from the Netbeans Team less than a year ago but I was afraid to do because I feel this request is not benificial for the majority of Netbeans users. But I think now is the right time to issue this request because I feel Netbeans is now encouraging and helping developers to make good-looking applications. Isn't it true that the more developers making visually-appealing Swing Apps, the less people will say that Swing is ugly? Please Netbeans, I'm begging you. Grant this small feature request of mine. I think if this tool was made available on Netbeans, many Netbeans users would be surprised and would say.... "Wow!"
I am not sure I understand what you are speaking about. But if you create JFrame ans try to change any color property, there is "Color Property Editor" in fact I think it's enough, isn't it ? Or am I missing something ?
No, it's not the Color Property Editor I was speaking about. A Color Schemer suggests a set of matching colors according to a color scheme or a harmony relationship of colors. For example, If the motiff of your application is violet, color schemer can present to you a set of colors that you may combine and use for your application. A color schemer application that I'm using gave me these complimentary colors for the base color violet: #666300, #E5D4F7 ColorCache, ColorSchemer Studio, and Colortheory are some of the application softwares that do color scheming. But I think, it would be better if netbeans has this feature also.