Font Color Feature Request

[ToyMaster458]

When setting the font color using the "Edit a Color", it would begreat to be able to manualy enter the color values to get the exact color you want.

[Dean Roddey]

It thik what it really needs is a little custom palette, that you could drag the colors you select over into, so that you could select those colors again very easily. That would be even better than hand entering, since you can get the colors you want and then be able to easily recover them and be sure you are using consistent colors throughout.

[auphan2]

Manual entry of colors would be a great addition. Maybe you could have the ability to manually enter the colors and then put them into a custom palette.

[Steve]

Yeah, manual entry is good. Sometimes you're in Photoshop or something and you come up with the perfect color, then it is very difficult to recreate in another app without the code. So, both would be the bomb, but the original request of the code I think would be great to have.

[Dean Roddey]

Don't forget the little draggable color stealer in the meantime. If you have a color in another app, drag over to it and steal it directly.

[wuench]

I would like manual entry as well. This kind of falls under the following windows interface standards stuff that was brought up before. I would prefer manual entry to a palatte, it's just easier to type it in to keep colors consistent, at least for me.

I would also like to see manual entry of location for buttons etc. Like the pronto has. I am just not dexterous enough to to get thing lined up by hand, and I haven't mastered the controls to line stuff up correctly yet. A lot of times it works for me, but sometimes my widgets end up flying all over the template. I would rather just get one lined up and type in the position for the rest.

[Ripper]

I also put in my vote for manual hex colors or RGB where I can either type them or paste them, I used the mouse drag thing at times but sometimes when I need the color it isnt already on the template and then I have to launch photoshop to grab it when I could easily type it in two seconds.

As for the button locations and stuff..I find CQC to be miles ahead compared to products like Mainlobby where I had to use X and Y coordinates...felt like I was back in the 80's

With CQC I use the grid function and the alignment tools and if I press the wrong button just hit undo and hit the next one

[Dean Roddey]

I would definitely argue for learning the alignment tools. They are far more powerful than manual placement. If they end up flying over the template, you've selected them in the wrong order, or used the wrong command. As Ripper says, just undo and take another whack at it. Once you figure them out, they are far and away the fastest way to get things done, particularly when things aren't equal sized and you need to get them center point aligned or center point distributed.

[wuench]

Allright, i'll keep plugging away with the alignment tools until I get the hang of it. Admittedly I haven't put in much "interface time" yet. You are probably right, better not to give me a crutch by implementing manual location setting at this point

You guys must be used to doing this kind of stuff in photoshop or some other software I don't have experience with. I am used to the pronto and visio and am having a hard time breaking my habits (especially the visio ones).

[Dean Roddey]

The alignment tools are pretty much directly out of Illustrator's alignment palette, though I'm sure it wasn't the first to implement them either.