Automation Task Request - System Colour Picker

[Floating.Point]

I think it might be nice to include a system colour picker as part of the Automation Tasks.

At the moment I am using the following osascript (JavaScript) 

function run(argv) {
    function chooseColor() {
        try {
            let app = Application.currentApplication();
            app.includeStandardAdditions = true;

            // Open the color picker with a default color of red
            let color = app.chooseColor({defaultColor: [1, 0, 0]});

            // Convert the normalized color values (0-1) to 8-bit RGB values (0-255)
            let r = Math.round(color[0] * 255);
            let g = Math.round(color[1] * 255);
            let b = Math.round(color[2] * 255);

            // Convert RGB values to HEX
            return rgbToHex(r, g, b);
        } catch (error) {
            return "no_swatch";
        }
    }

    function rgbToHex(r, g, b) {
        return ((1 << 24) + (r << 16) + (g << 8) + b).toString(16).slice(1).toUpperCase();
    }

    // Output
    return JSON.stringify({alfredworkflow: {arg: chooseColor()}});
}

 

But this method comes with a warning 

 

osascript[41187:4957949] It's not legal to call -layoutSubtreeIfNeeded on a view which is already being laid out.  If you are implementing the view's -layout method, you can call -[super layout] instead. Break on void _NSDetectedLayoutRecursion(void) to debug.  This will be logged only once.  This may break in the future.

 

… which worries me a bit

 

Edited August 5 by Floating.Point

[vitor]

13 hours ago, Floating.Point said:

which worries me a bit

 

But it’s not you causing the error, it’s whatever AppleScript is doing. It looks to be accessing old APIs which are themselves throwing that error. I recommend opening a bug report with Apple for that. I will do so as well, but ostensibly the more there are, the more likely issues are to be addressed.

[Floating.Point]

Okay will do, cheers Vitor ☺️