2023 COLOR PICKER - NEEDS IMPROVEMENT

[Tom Klaber]

So the new color picker is interesting and I like the idea of enlarging the color box to see more clearly what you are selecting, but the way it is implemented makes it hard to select as the enlargement covers the selection box:

 

Its a little easy to lose track of where your mouse is.  A better implementation would be a static preview box that live updates with the hover.

[Dan Hoffman]

Yes, I've been searching for where the options that control this behavior are located and it seems that there's no way to turn it off? Makes it really hard to accurately and quickly change colors when you can't see the neighboring ones around the one you're trying to click on, especially when there's a few shades adjacent to each other....

[Dan Hoffman]

Over two months later and.....nobody at Vectorworks has even acknowledged that this is an issue? It is a DAILY frustration!

[Josh Loy]

@Tom Klaber and @Dan Hoffman thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry to hear about the frustration.  We'll look into options for the next release but you really just want a way to turn off the swatch zooming code?

[Dan Hoffman]

3 minutes ago, Josh Loy said:

@Tom Klaber and @Dan Hoffman thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry to hear about the frustration.  We'll look into options for the next release but you really just want a way to turn off the swatch zooming code?

 

Yup, i.e. reverting to the prior behavior in VW2022 and earlier, it's especially helpful when not working on a Retina / 4K display - the swatch zoom covers nearly the entirety of the 9 tiles surrounding the one being hovered over!

[Andy Broomell]

I wonder how different it looks on Window vs Mac. This is what it looks like for me on Mac, which feels fine to me:

 

 

 

[Kevin McAllister]

6 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:

 

 

 

I like your simple colour palette!

KM

[Josh Loy]

@Tom Klaber and @Dan Hoffman, as noted above the preview swatch on Windows was a bit larger than the one on Mac, we will update the size of the Windows swatch to match in the next service pack.  Please let us know if anything else isn't working as expected.  Thanks again for pointing this out!

[zoomer]

And a wish,

where I think it would really fit into especially a VW.

 

I am a great fan of Adobe Kuler :

 

 

 

I even bought some iPadOS/macOS apps, which miss the real Kuler's capabilities or flexibilities.

 

But C4D has part of Kuler built in its color Picker, 7 years ago,

which I like very much.

 

 

 

So I would welcome such an upgrade in VW