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LarryLeonard
Tomato Guru
USA
1041 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 11 2003 : 2:05:43 PM
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Although the new color picker controls in the "Visual Assist X Options" dialog have a lot of nice features, I really dislike one thing: all you have to do is move the mouse over a color to have it change your selection! And there's no way to get your original color back (apart from clicking Cancel, and dumping all your changes). Ugh!
This is very annoying: when I'm good and ready to pick the color, I'll choose it by clicking on it.  Thanks guys!
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru
Portugal
2321 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2003 : 5:49:46 PM
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Now you are being really picky, eh?  |
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Darren
Tomato Guru
USA
105 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2003 : 7:53:44 PM
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Ya, that is annoying. My design intent was to have hot tracking where the color follows where the mouse is. An unfortunate side affect is what you describe. I'll try and clean it up.
Quick question - Are the two other views in the color picker helpful or do you mainly stay in the palette tab? |
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LarryLeonard
Tomato Guru
USA
1041 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2003 : 8:20:22 PM
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("Picky" is my middle name!  )
Don't get me wrong, it's probably the best color picker I've seen, except for that one tiny thing! I love the tips with the RGB values - that makes it so easy to add a new color that's just a little lighter than an existing one. Good job!
Personally, I prefer the web tab, because there are so many more colors available. And, they have names, which I'm more likely to remember when I re-image my machine, or get a new job, or re-install MSVC, etc.
The system tab, I don't know... all the colors there are so ugly - and they're the colors I picked!
Another thing I just thought of: the RGB tooltips are in hex, but when I go to add a new color by right-clicking on an empty slot, the standard Windows color common dialog comes up - and it requires decimal numbers, not hex, so I have to use the calculator to convert. (No, I can't to hex-to-decimal conversion in my head, even after all these years!) Can you change the tooltips to be in decimal (or both)?
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Edited by - LarryLeonard on Dec 12 2003 09:08:44 AM |
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