Mac/ list colors by name? Color palletes are missing
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@and939 said:
Hi even in the SU support it shows the icon for the palettes list.
http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/96094that's layout.app.. not sketchup.
sketchup has never had the ability to display a list on mac.. long time request. -
I'll add that to my growing list of things that annoy me about fruit.
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@box said:
I'll add that to my growing list of things that annoy me about fruit.
it's not apple's fault.. the os x color picker has a list view.. that's what the screen shots (driven's) in this thread are showing.. the problem is that sketchup hijacks the list view instead of adding a unique sketchup palette.. it replaces the built in list view with an icon only view..
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I was being flippant.
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Jeff, good of you to notice that we were being shown LayOut's color picker. I didn't catch that.
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@box said:
I was being flippant.
it's all good. i wasn't trying to defend apple or whatever.. just clarifying for the sake of adding info to the thread.
fwiw, here's an old thread on it.. there are others.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11%26amp;t=23769%26amp;hilit=+picker
pretty sure this has been on my wishlist lists every year
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On more testing my mod only overrides SU on that panel, so have alook at the best way to help you out tonight
John -
HI- Thanks all for your responses!
To add another complication, the appearance of the palette list view, briefly, on my laptop roughly corresponded to installing the latest Thea plugin. Could this have done it? I was so happy there was a way to view the materials with the name and small screenshot, it was a bit glitchy but it looked liked Drivens screen shot. Alas it was not to be, the "feature/bug" vanished. This does clarify that there's not some corruption in the mac picker.
There are several instances of the palette appearing in various guides on line, but as Dave said, it looks like folks just grabbed a generic picker screen shot rather than taking one from SU. I'm going to try to reproduce the list again on the macbook pro to prove i'm not crazy. Thanks for taking the time to look at this. And -
@and939 said:
I'm going to try to reproduce the list again on the macbook pro to prove i'm not crazy. Thanks for taking the time to look at this. And
[color=#FF0000 you are crazy... /color] [humour intended]
I've recreated it twice now and that was by going through every available 'Color Picker' option that 'might' enable it, and it's quite a complex procedure for an 'Xcode.app' novice like myself, without it or if you've never used it, I douby you be as 'lucky' first time out...
The first time was by educated guess, that is when I took the screen shot...
Then, I 'undid' the changes, to check I hadn't permanently broken it, before posting the shot...
Could I do it again....
eventually, that's when I realised what it was doing, how it works, and why the @last Sketchup team may have deliberately choose not to enable it, in the SU 'color picker'...
Although, I doubt it was a evaluated...
when 'Color Picker' is used by any app it comes in bare-boned with lots of thing to turn on/off...
with some when you turn them on, they turn a previous choice off...
I just got back from work so I'll have another look...
BTW, I think everyone with a mac should visit dave's 'poll' and even add a response here as to why they would/wouldn't fiend it useful... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=57688
john
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Thanks john- so far no luck reproducing it. But i was jumping back and forth between Layout and SU, Thea and photoshop so maybe this had something to do with it. Weirdly, the color palettes list is available is Layout as Jeff pointed out. So maybe something switched it on and the pref carried over to SU. (i dont really know what i am talking about here) IF i can reproduce will post the process.
thx again,
And
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