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Offline gabewaxeshisknee

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Addition to Color Picker
« on: August 30, 2016, 07:01:13 PM »
The color picker window should have 3 sliders added that are just RGB. So then I don't have to fumble around with the menus to find the color I want. I'm not suggesting that the current system should be removed. For more crazy colors, it works great. But if I just want to quickly make a yellow or light blue, just three sliders would be nice.
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Re: Addition to Color Picker
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2016, 08:57:33 PM »
Given the amazing enhancements to the rest of Xlights, the color picker functionality stands out as uniquely awkward to use. And while the addition of color curves was great, I still miss the saved color palettes from V3 - I know there are work-arounds... 

Not sure what you are suggesting is the answer but it is sound like a first good step.
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Re: Addition to Color Picker
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2016, 09:15:03 PM »
Not sure about the Windows platform, but if you're on a Macintosh and click on a color swatch to change it, you can choose different options for mixing colors.  RGB sliders being one of them.
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Re: Addition to Color Picker
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2016, 10:53:37 PM »
Unfortunately it's not on Windows. I was thinking it would be in the color window. The one that has the options like contrast and such. It would make choosing a color faster.


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Re: Addition to Color Picker
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2016, 08:12:37 AM »
The color picker is coming from your operating system not from xLights.  It's different on every platform.  Show a screenshot of what you're seeing because I have no idea what you mean.  It's pretty easy to pick the colors.

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Re: Addition to Color Picker
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2016, 08:14:27 AM »
Also you should read through our issues list because there aren't very many new ideas and it just wastes our time having to read and respond to the same things all the time:

https://github.com/smeighan/xLights/issues/649

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Re: Addition to Color Picker
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2016, 03:30:44 PM »
Thought I would post this here, but I will also post this on the Github page. This is what my idea is. Sorry for the bad Photoshop.

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Re: Addition to Color Picker
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2016, 03:50:03 PM »
The color picker for Windows is already there.  It does require two more mouse clicks, but I think your fingers can tolerate that.