textual-colorpicker – A color picker widget for Textual

[TomJGooding]

I've been working on a color picker widget as a fun little project to better understand Textual. The initial release of textual-colorpicker is now available on PyPI!

https://github.com/TomJGooding/textual-colorpicker

This color picker obviously has some limitations as it runs in the terminal. It’s still a work in progress so likely still has a few bugs and quirks.

Any feedback would be much appreciated!

[willmcgugan]

This is awesome! Would you mind PRing that to https://github.com/textualize/transcendent-textual, if you haven't already?

[TomJGooding]

Thanks Will - done! Textualize/transcendent-textual#25

[willmcgugan]

@TomJGooding are you on our Discord server?

[NSPC911]

No sorry, I don't use Discord.

Yet.

You can add the word yet to anything! We have wonderful people in the Discord server, and I think you will have loads of fun. You can meet people like yourself, and many more who are just as interested in Textual as you are. (There are also non-textual conversations, and those tend to also be just as fun). I think the moment you join Discord, you will ask yourself why you hadn't done so earlier!

[matmaer]

No sorry, I don't use Discord.

Joined Discord because of textual. No local app, just surfing to Discord in the browser to see what's up in the textual community (and get top notch quality feedback and help). I did add a bunch of servers while I was at it, but in the end I'm barely participating in any other server.

It's worth it IMHO to handle this Discord exception.

[TomJGooding]

Thanks everyone for the kind words! Honestly I consider myself only a minor contributor, but I guess my posts here do start adding up...!

It's great there's such an active Textual community, but I'm afraid I have my reservations about Discord (which I'd rather not get into here!). But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious, so never say never...

[TomJGooding]

@davidfokkema Glad you've found textual-dissect useful - sorry I beat you to it!

[davidfokkema]

@davidfokkema Glad you've found textual-dissect useful - sorry I beat you to it!

Not at all! Nice work and it saved me some trouble having to write it myself, ;-).

[edward-jazzhands]

@TomJGooding Since you are an active Textual library creator, I invited you to a new group we've formed called The Textual Tool Yard (TTY for short). I made it so that library authors could have extended conversations about library projects without needing to do all our communication through the discord server, and have a centralized place to make announcements for library updates. No worries at all if you don't want to join but it would be awesome to have you in the group. You can see the new discussions page here:
https://github.com/orgs/ttygroup/discussions

[TomJGooding]

Interesting, thanks for the invite. Sorry if this has already been discussed over on Discord, but isn't there a risk this might fragment the Textual community? Maybe I've just misunderstood the purpose of this group?

[edward-jazzhands]

No we don't really feel that way. The purpose of the community is long-form discussion of libraries and improvements. This board isn't really the place for posting regular announcements to libraries for example. Good to announce a new library but not posting about update announcements and new features, or discussing ideas for new libraries/features we'd like to make. We normally do all of this stuff in the Discord server exactly because it's not entirely appropriate to be doing all that stuff on the Textual discussion board. But lately we've been feeling that Discord is a bit too ephemeral and we should be doing it on a website where its more accessible and searchable.