AEColorPicker

This is the Plugin and ExternalLibrary for Adobe After Effects, is intended to access from scripts to the built-in AE ColorPickerDialog, instead of the operating system dialog.

Download:

• https://github.com/Belonit/AEColorPicker/releases/

Installing the plug-in for Adobe After Effects

Windows:

Copy AEColorPicker.aex to the folder

Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects [version]\Support Files\Plug-ins

Mac: Copy AEColorPicker.plugin to the folder

Applications/Adobe After Effects [version]/Plug-ins

An example of using ExternalLibrary in JSX scripts.

var externalLibrary = new ExternalObject('lib:C:\\AEColorPicker.aex'); 
var oldColor = 0x20F186;
var newColor = externalLibrary.colorPicker(oldColor, "dialog_title");
if(newColor == -1){ //Returns -1 if user clicked on cancel
    newColor = oldColor;
}

Building

Visual Studio 2019 for Window, XCode 8 for MAC. Other than that, you will need Adobe After Effects SDK and Adobe Bridge SDK. Installation instructions for SDKs are located in the corresponding subfolders in the /SDK/