SelectColor issue on Yosemite

[Sam_Rowlands]

@145502:@Will Shank

Also, if you use PickColor and NSColorWell in the same project there can be crosstalk like with Styled TextAreas before Sam found the fix. Working with NSColorWell should/might be easy to account for. Really, anything that interacts with THE color panel is a source of conflict as there’s no mechanism to use NSColorPanel with exclusivity, everything is free to change it or hear of it’s changes. Unless you run it modally, but I think that’s an uncommon thing to do and wonder if Apple even sees the pipette bug as a bug.

This is part of the reason why I switched to using a genuine (albeit hacked to get into Xojo) NSColorWell as it solves some of the exclusivity issues with the color picker.

Right now, I think Apple is swamped with bug reports for Yosemite. It seems like the WiFi issue is the most critical and receiving the most attention. As the pipette issue… Unless Apple start using their own color picker again, I don’t think it’s got any priority.

[Will_Shank]

@145504:@Sam Rowlands

using a genuine (albeit hacked to get into Xojo) NSColorWell as it solves some of the exclusivity issues with the color picker.

Most of my uses will be without a UI widget so I’m focusing on the target/action mechanism. I’ve read many people speculate on the secret controller the NSColorWell must have to do what it does

[Will_Shank]

Here’s an updated version. Includes alpha support, convenience methods to disable TextAreas ‘use font panel’ and completed error checks.

http://home.comcast.net/~trochoid/SelectColor2.3.zip