Colourcoder is a very small program that is designed to help people to understand the numeric colour values often used in HTML, CSS and many other aspects of design and programming. Due to its simplicity, there isn't a lot to know about Colourcoder. However, if there is something you need to know about Colourcoder then this is the place to get answers.
Here, you can find a simple guide that explains each control that appears in Colourcoder's window and the source code is also freely available to anyone; not that there's much to look at.
Colourcoder is designed to be as portable as possible; it does not require installation and should run from more-or-less anywhere: HDDs, Floppy Disks, USB memory sticks and so on. The only real requirement is that whatever device you're trying to run it on has Java SE 6 (released in 2006) or later installed.
However, if you're only interested in using Colourcoder like an installed application then you can either follow the steps for your system at the bottom of this page or, if you already know what you're doing, find a suitably sized icon in Colourcoder's icons directory to make things like Desktop Shortcuts or symlinks to the Colourcoder.jar file.
Here's some simple steps to make Colourcoder look more like an installed application on Windows and Linux (running KDE. I don't know anything about Gnome, sorry). They are not in any way necessary to make Colourcoder work; they are purely for the sake of making things look a bit neater and nicer when you don't intend to just run it portably from a USB stick or something like that.
Newand then select
Shortcutfrom the sub-menu that appears.
Browse...button in the window that appears.
OKand then
Next".
Properties.
Change Icon...button.
Browse...button in the window that appears and find the folder you made in step #2.
Openbutton. You should now be back to the previous window but now with the Colourcoder icon selected. Click
OKand you should be returned to the Shortcut's properties window with a slightly nicer looking Icon on display. Then, be sure to click
Applybefore clicking
OK.
~/bin/into your file manager's address bar and press enter.
colourcoder. Move into the new diectory and move all of the files except for the coloucoder.desktop file into it and then make the start_colourcoder.sh script file be executable. To do this, either right-click the the file and set the executable permission from the properties menu (the exact menus to use will probaby vary depending on your distribution), or just enter chmod +x ~/bin/colourcoder/start_colourcoder.sh in a command prompt.