Re: How to bring up the Foreground Color dialog

Posted by Wayne Rasband-2 on Sep 17, 2020; 7:11pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/How-to-bring-up-the-Foreground-Color-dialog-tp5023959p5023962.html

> On Sep 17, 2020, at 7:53 AM, Stein Rørvik <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> I wonder if there is any way to launch the set Foreground Color dialog (the one with three sliders/numbers) in the GUI besides first opening the color picker, and then double click a color? The same question applies to the Background Color dialog. Also, how to do this in a macro?
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> What about adding entries named "Foreground..." and "Background..." for doing exactly this, above or below the "Color Picker" entry in the new and very useful right-click-menu of the color picker tool icon?

The ImageJ 1.53f1 daily build adds "Foreground..." and "Background…” items to the right-click-menu of the color picker tool icon.

> A related request:
> In the color picker, the name of the color is written as a copyable word like "black" or "red" in the bottom of the picker.
> What about making this editable, so that one can just type "red" to set the current foreground or background color to that?
> For the colors that do not match the predefined names, one could also here be allowed to type a hex triplet like #56b900.

I will work on this.
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