DigitalColor Meter with hex codes?

I swear to god, these people must sit around and pull out popular features just to screw with people. There was zero reason to remove this.

@ahainen - perhaps you missed Chris' post:

Oct 28, 2011 9:54 AM ( in response to cmllr)

It’s actually still there. Just go up to “View > Display Values > As Hexadecimal.”

No, crickemphoto, thausendmal no,

not sure what you are ever seeing ‘still there‘ ,

our DCM *****was not**** there, is had been stolen without any reason and without any advantages for the user

and was braught bake one evening whem all people but the european where sleeping

~k

(saved for similar cases 😉)

DCM does not remember the selection. Every time you open the app it reverts back to useless decimal.

Please Bartle report to Apple feedback.

cu!

Check it out cantonbecker

https://gist.github.com/1713059

Thanks! Works great.

I had the same problem, but before buying it from the appstore the classic color meter, wich is now 2.69€, I did some search for a free alternative, and actually found a solution, how you can turn back on the hex vlaues in Apple's own tool.

Just go to view menu / display values and there you can choose hexadecimal.

And also pressing CMD+SHIFT+C copies the value to the clipboard.

Yes, it very easy to got it, just go to here.

So Apple has made hex not default anymore to trick people into spending .99 or 2.99 in the app store? Looks like it worked..

Except that View>Display Values has all three menu items grayed out.

So we're back to square one. How useless!

cydward, Change the dropdown on the DigitalColor Meter window from "L*a*b*" to "Display native values" should do the trick for you.

DigitalColor Meter still supports hex values, they've just hidden it.

View > Display Values > as Hexadecimal.

Shift + ⌘C copies the hex value.

Solved for Mavericks too!

Best solution ever. No money spent, just 5 minutes.

1. https://gist.github.com/astroud/1713059

2. https://github.com/afeld/dotfiles/blob/529bb9ace370828e69e1b61e5d3ca9d9e38258e8/ bash_profile_includes/aliases.sh

What you do:

1. Open AppleScript Editor
2. Paste in contents from 1. above
3. Save to ~/ (user home, not root; i.e. save in

   /Users/[your_user]/

   ) with the filename

   .color_meter.scpt

   (yes, with DOT prefix. AppleScript will challenge you, but yes do it. It just makes it a hidden file)
4. Now, open a text editor—I just did it in nano, but anything will do, e.g. Atom, Sublime, TextWrangler, TextEdit. Anyway, make a new file called

   aliases.sh

   . You'll now add the following code so that when DCM is started, it automatically chooses the hex code setting without having to go to the bloody menu each time:
   

   # open DigitalColor Meter, displaying hex. This is just a comment
   alias color="osascript ~/.color_meter.scpt"

Save this as aliases.sh in your root directory /. Now each time you open DCM, it's already in hex mode!

Snaps to astroud and afeld for helping us all.