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Hi, could you please advise how to copy the hexa values of a shade of a colour?
According to the attached picture in Colour editor that field is grey so does not seem selectable, but in the meantime quite often would like to copy that hexa value from one document to a second if needed.
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At Named colors it is always active field so easily can mark and copy with the mouse, but not if that color is a shade of a Parent. Or I am missing some evident easy way
I'm not sure why you can't copy the hex value of a shade. I have found no way to copy the hex value, but as long as you have "delete unused colours and styles" on the viewtab of the options panel disabled (the check mark should be cleared) then you can copy and paste an object containing the shade and both the shade and it's parent colour will appear on your colourline in the new document. The transfer object can be deleted.
is greyed out because its a shade of another colour and so manual adjustments to it are calibrated by the shade percentages at the bottom and not by the hex
Just copy & paste an object with that value into the new document & then delete. The colours Parent & Shade remain on the colour line.Quote:
...quite often would like to copy that hexa value from one document to a second if needed
Otherwise open a second document and use the colour picker to select the required colour, it just becomes a Local fill colour.
All that said, there is nothing keeping you from creating a new shape and entering the grayed out Hex value.
Yes finally it is logical to be greyed out, just accustomed to select text values from the screen and copy past that.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
Thanks for the tips, so will use rather copy & paste an object with that color and after deleting the object.
I've been experimenting further with this and if you copy your source object with your shade to the clipboard you can create a new object in a new document and paste attributes to give it the shade that you copied. your shade and it's parent colour still show up on the colourline but it eliminates the step of deleting the transfer object.
Here's another and perhaps the quickest method for Zsolt?
Frances yes that is good idea to copy the object and in the another document CTRL - SHIFT - A and paste attributes, basically that is also a way copy the named colors from one document to a second one.
Steve thanks that method is perfect for me, that suits absolutely for those who has the mark text and CTRL - C reflex like me :D Thanks just again
Plus, for named colors, you can simply drag the name of the color from one document to another in the Color Gallery.
Thanks that is also a great method for copying the named colours, I was not aware at all that the Color Gallery contains all colours of the opened Xara windows
It is again amazing how many ways there are in Xara to achieve one thing!
It is a good method. Note that the Color Gallery doesn't contain -all- colors. It's only the named colors. But yes, in addition to the palettes you have associated with the gallery, the pane contains all the named colors in all the open documents.Quote:
Originally Posted by csehz