Written in VB5.

This program was developed to easily design coloursets for jockeys, i.e. the colours and patterns of the clothes they wear during a race. There are laterally thousands of combinations of coloursets that can be made using just a a few colours and a few patterns. There are also certain rules that must be applied when designing a set. There should also be checked for duplications, even sets that may look the same from a distance should be detected as duplicates.

A database holds all the colourset specification. In fact, al the information to reconstruct a colourset are in the colourset database. The patterns are stored as Enhanced Metafiles (emf) and are loaded, layered, and filled with a specific colours when viewed. The colourset application is therefore totally customizable for any other application where sets must be designed form a repository of colours and patterns.

Figure 1 shows the main Window. Changing a specific colour or pattern is as easy as selecting it from a fixed list. The required amount of security was built into the application. Certain individuals are only allowed to make certain modifications to coloursets.

Figure 2 shows thumbnails of the selected coloursets for printing. Individual colourset images can also be exported to vector based formats like emf and wmf.

Figure 3 shows a print preview of the available patterns in the colourset database. If required, patterns can be changed or new ones can be added. Note that the pattern images do not carry any colour information and are therefore in black and white.

Jockey Colourset Examples

The main window

New patterns a easily be added to the program

A print preview of colourset thumbnails.