[macos] How to start color picker on Mac OS?

I am a complete newbie at Mac. It so happened that now I'm working on it. I have an weird issue - I can't find how to start default Color Picker?

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You can turn the color picker into an application by following the guide here:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060408050920158

From the guide:

Simply fire up AppleScript (Applications -> AppleScript Editor) and enter this text:

choose color

Now, save it as an application (File -> Save As, and set the File Format pop-up to Application), and you're done


Take a look into NSColorWell class reference.


You can call up the color picker from any Cocoa application (TextEdit, Mail, Keynote, Pages, etc.) by hitting Shift-Command-C

The following article explains more about using Mac OS's Color Picker.

http://www.macworld.com/article/46746/2005/09/colorpickersecrets.html