md-color-picker

md-color-picker

Angular-Material based color picker with no jQuery or other DOM/utility library dependencies.

Demo

Try out the demo here: GitHub Page

Install

NPM

• Download tinycolor.js 1.2.1 or higher. Other versions may work, though 1.2.1 was used to develop this.
• Install md-color-picker.

npm install md-color-picker

Bower (includes tinycolor.js):

bower install md-color-picker

Angular dependencies

• Angular Material
• ngCookies (optional)

Other dependencies

The only other dependency is tinycolor.js which is an exceptional color manipulation library.

Usage

• Include the css.

<link href="path/to/md-color-picker/dist/mdColorPicker.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

• Include the javascript.

<script src="path/to/tinycolor/dist/tinycolor-min.js"></script>
<script src="path/to/md-color-picker/dist/mdColorPicker.min.js"></script>

• Add dependencies to your application (ngCookies is optional)

var app = angular.module('myApp', ['ngMaterial','ngCookies', 'mdColorPicker']);

• Place the directive wherever it is needed. note: this breaks the old version 0.1 as it now uses ng-model instead of value

<div md-color-picker ng-model="valueObj"></div>

Options

Options may be set either by an options object on the md-color-picker attribute and/or using attributes. If an option is present on both the options object and as an attribute, the attribute will take precedence.

Setting options by scope object

// Controller
$scope.scopeVariable.options = {
    label: "Choose a color",
    icon: "brush",
    default: "#f00",
    genericPalette: false,
    history: false
};

<div md-color-picker="scopeVariable.options" ng-model="scopeVariable.color"></div>

Setting options by attribute

<div
    md-color-picker
    ng-model="scopeVariable.color"
    label="Choose a color"
    icon="brush"
    default="#f00"
    md-color-generic-palette="false"
    md-color-history="false"
></div>

Option Object name	Attribute Option name	Type	Default	Description
type	type	Int	0	Default output type. 0: hex, 1: rgb, 2: hsl
label	label	String	""	The lable for the input.
icon	icon	String	""	Material Icon name. https://design.google.com/icons/
random	random	Boolean	false	Select a random color on open
default	default	Color	"rgb(255,255,255)"	Default color
openOnInput	open-on-input	Boolean	true	Open color picker when user clicks on the input field. If disabled, color picker will only open when clicking on the preview.
hasBackdrop	has-backdrop	Boolean	true	Dialog Backdrop. https://material.angularjs.org/latest/api/service/$mdDialog
clickOutsideToClose	click-outside-to-close	Boolean	true	Dialog click outside to close. https://material.angularjs.org/latest/api/service/$mdDialog
skipHide	skip-hide	Boolean	true	Allows for opening multiple dialogs. https://github.com/angular/material/issues/7262
preserveScope	preserve-scope	Boolean	true	Dialog preserveScope. https://material.angularjs.org/latest/api/service/$mdDialog
clearButton	md-color-clear-button	Boolean	true	Show the "clear" button inside of the input.
preview	md-color-preview	Boolean	true	Show the color preview circle next to the input.
alphaChannel	md-color-alpha-channel	Boolean	true	Enable alpha channel.
spectrum	md-color-spectrum	Boolean	true	Show the spectrum tab.
sliders	md-color-sliders	Boolean	true	Show the sliders tab.
genericPalette	md-color-generic-palette	Boolean	true	Show the generic palette tab.
materialPalette	md-color-material-palette	Boolean	true	Show the material colors palette tab.
history	md-color-history	Boolean	true	Show the history tab.
defaultTab	md-color-default-tab	String, Int	"spectrum"	Which tab should be selected when opening. Can either be a string or index. If the value is an index, do not count hidden/disabled tabs. spectrum sliders genericPalette materialPalette history

Disclaimer

This is still in a very early beta, and is rapidly changing (3 versions before initial commit). I am open to any and all help anyone is willing to put in. Will update as we go.

Known issues / TODO

• Prevent focus from opening color picker on window/tab activation.
• Focus on preview input when user starts typing.
• Clean up code.
  • Javascript
  • CSS / LESS
  • Build script cleaned up and static server integrated for development