Low-level Client API

The central component of Colouro SDK is a Colouro client implementation that you can utilize to plug the Colouro instant preview into you work-flow.

Getting started

Following snippet shows minimal example of Client class usage, that will print status and received colors into console.

// Import Colouro SDK (only for node.js based environment, omit this line in browser)
var colouro = require('colouro-sdk'),

    // Semantic name constants 
    semanticNames = ['primary fg', 'primary bg', 'secondary fg', 'secondary bg', 'mg'],

    // Colouro app host address
    colouroHost = '192.168.0.42',

    // Create client instance with given host and default port
    client = new colouro.Client({host: colouroHost + ':8080'})

        // Setup status changed callback
        .on('status', function(connected) { 
            console.log(connected ? 'Connected' : 'Disconnected'); 
        })

        // Setup color scheme received callback
        .on('colors', function(colors, semantics) { 
            console.log('Colors received');
            for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
                console.log(
                    i + ': ' + colors[i] + ' (' + semanticNames[semantics[i]] + ')'
                );
            }
        });

If you run this script with correct Colouro host, you may see something like this (hit Ctrl + C to quit the script):

Connected
Colors received
0: #fcef7a (primary fg)
1: #284e4a (primary bg)
2: #b7fed4 (secondary bg)
3: #2b221e (secondary fg)
4: #ff2a1e (mg)

Notes:

  1. As you can see the semantic (meaning of color) constants are in range 0..4, see the semanticNames in example above.
  2. If connecting to colouro host fails, the client will try to reconnect forever. Each time the connection fails or succeeds the status callback gets called.
  3. If you want to stop the client, call client.close(), to start client again call client.init().