Color picker behavior suggestion

**MarcT** · 14 July 2008, 01:16 PM

Hi,

If the "color bar" picker could be triggered with a right click and then operate on the line color it would be very useful and consistent with the color bar behavior.

Sorry if this has been suggested before.

Regards,

Marc

**tonylondon** · 14 July 2008, 03:01 PM

Sounds like a good idea!

**Jimi King** · 14 July 2008, 03:23 PM

It does.

Go to page File> Page Set up, and under the "View" tab, set the "Right-click on colour" to "Set line colour", then press OK.

**Jimi King** · 14 July 2008, 03:25 PM

Unless you mean the Colour Editor, in which case, no it doesn't.

**MarkMyWords** · 14 July 2008, 03:42 PM

I, for one, am glad to see the new colour editor behaviour.

Since the last patch/update, if you have a line selected then the colour editor will default to line colour, but with a closed shape it defaults to fill colour. Much better Xara, thanks.

**MarcT** · 14 July 2008, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Jimi King

Unless you mean the Colour Editor, in which case, no it doesn't.

Hi Jimi, I meant the color picker next to the color swatches on the bottom of the screen.

The way it's working is left click and hold, then hover on the desired fill color. So I was suggesting to right-click and hold to set the line color.

Regards,

Marc

**ss-kalm** · 14 July 2008, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by coco

The way it's working is left click and hold, then hover on the desired fill color. So I was suggesting to right-click and hold to set the line color.

That would be a great idea Marc.

**MarcT** · 15 July 2008, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by ss-kalm

That would be a great idea Marc.

Thanks Keith, I think it would be a productive as well as intuitive tweak.

Regards,

Marc

**Jimi King** · 15 July 2008, 04:04 PM

Yes now I understand the feature you are speaking about I agree.

**gwpriester** · 15 July 2008, 05:23 PM

What would also be terrific is a keyboard shortcut to toggle the color picker. Adobe uses the Alt key to toggle the color picker when certain tools are selected. This would be a tremendous time saver over having to drop all the way to the bottom of the page each time you want to sample a color.