Richard --

Two other things that might be useful.

First, you can also *drag* out of a color palette to the color you 
want to pick. This is sometimes easier (and sometimes necessary when 
the color you want is tiny) -- thus you can move the dropper around 
until the color you are trying to pick up shows at the top of the 
palette or on your destination object.

Second, there is a preference for what the "change color" halo does. 
Go to the halos category and turn on the preference 
"propertySheetFromHalo". This will pop up the property sheet from 
that halo directly.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 2:22 PM +1300 2/12/03, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>I asked about picking up colours.
>Bill Spight <bspight at pacbell.net> replied:
>
>	This one I stumbled upon.  Click the eye dropper on the purple
>	section of the left arrow.
>
>Slaps forehead. It's so obvious!
>
>The fact that the palette always comes up at the same time
>somehow made me think I _had_ to chose from the palette
>(something that would be much easier if it were larger).
>
>So I did what I should originally have done.
>1.  Note the balloon help that pops up.
>2.  'Change color' <method strings with it>.
>3.  Moprh balloonHelpTextForHandle: <select>
>4.  doRecolor:with:<select>
>
>Gosh.  It turns out that if you hold down the shift key while
>clicking on the eyedropper halo handle, you get a _different_
>set of options, where you can change a whole lot of things:
>rounded corners, sticky, lock, colour, border colour, border
>style, border width, gradient fill, drop shadow colour.
>
>If it had ever occurred to me to try shift-clicking on halo handles,
>I might have discovered this ages ago.
>
>5.  changeColor<implementors of it>
>6.  Morph changeColor<select>
>
>This calls ColorPickerMorph new choseModalityFromPreference
>
>7.  ColorPickerMorph<browse it>
>8.  <select class comment> CURSE no such luck, no comment.
>9.  Poke around a bit.  AH HAH!
>     ColorPickerMorph class>>initialize
>	ColorChart := Color colorPaletteForDepth: 16 extent: 190 at 60.
>
>10. Double those numbers.
>11. <accept>
>12. In a Workspace, ColorPickerMorph initialize<do it>
>
>HOORAY!  A palette that is almost big enough!
>
>The method comment of ColorPickerMorph>>initialize is rather apropos
>for the thread about Morphic:
>     "... for the moment, in grand Morphic fashion,
>      this is rather inflexibly all housed right here"
>
>13. Looks as though things happen in #pickColorAt:.
>14. Notice comment "pick up color, either inside or outside this world".
>     pickedCOlor := Display colorAt: aGlobalPoint
>
>How embarrassing.  I had said to myself "I can't do this in Squeak."
>If only I had said "There MUST be a way to do this in Squeak, shovel
>out, start DIGGING boyo." I'd have got there unaided.
>
>Mind you, this is linked up with the #modalColorPickers preference,
>which really wants to be false for this kind of "pick up any colour
>anywhere" use, and I had it set to true.  In that case, clicking outside
>the palette doesn't work so well.


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