Shape won't show fill colour

[Grafix Smelter]

Title says it all. How do I get XXDP7 to show the fill colour of a shape?
The outline width is zero and transparent, but the pallete on the bottom of the screen fails to show the fill colour.
HELP!! (please).

[Rik]

I'm not sure how you created this shape?
What exact steps you went through?

But, sure enough, if I select your shape, then the palette line on the bottom of the screen does not show the fill colour.

If I create a shape, similar to yours, then I don't get the same problem, as you do.

Hopefully an Xpert will soon come on-line and give you the answer.

[Fred C]

It's there! It is difficult to see.

[handrawn]

it happens - likely because it is in RGB colour model [not to be confused with RGB colour space], and the diamonds are technically HSV colour model

best way is to use colour editor to make a named colour if you want to preserve the RGB colour model

otherwise as #cccccc is 20% black, and on the colour bar as an HSV colour model diamond, you could just refill it if you don't mind switching to HSV...

[Grafix Smelter]

Just discovered that a right click and select the shape tool and Xara wakes up.
Interestingly the + appears in the 30% diamond.
I'm still curious as to why a single click fails to show the fill colour. The shape was supplied to me, so I'm not sure of it's originating software.
Anyway I can carry on with the job, thanks for the comments.

Opps, sorry "handrawn" you are correct, I was playing with a copy of the shape.

[handrawn]

ah the times I do that

things can get 'lost in translation' when shapes are imported

[Fred C]

OK. I see. You meant the 'Color Line' and not the 'Color Swatch'.

[wizard509]

Perhaps you didn't have a fill on the color selector. Look and see if the color selector box just has an outline and no fill showing. If that is the case, with nothing selected just right click on any color on the color line and set that as your default fill color.