On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:03:49AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller spake thusly:
 
> Angus Leeming wrote:
> > You are restricting users to some subset of available colours chosen
> > by you. (The choice widget in the dialog.) 
> 
> Exactly. At least the framework should be there, else we are restricted with 
> the qt frontend too, and that would be a pity.
> 
> > I wonder if I could create
> > a colour-picker dialog for xforms, analogous to that in the Qt
> > frontend? The branch dialog would have a button "color", coloured
> > appropriately. Pressing it would launch the picker. Returning from
> > this would re-colour the button appropriately.
> 
> Please do! I guess it is not too hard for an xforms guru like you, as the 
> necessary stuff is already there in preferences. I was planning to add custom 
> colour support to characters long time ago, which is a breeze if you have the 
> rgb values. The colour picker could do us a favour in some more places (maybe 
> you could even include it to xforms itself).
> 
> Regards,
> Juergen.

Be careful though with character colours. They are supposed to be
outputtable to LaTeX. (But with validating/requiring the appropriate
preamble stmts even that could be doable.) 

Martin

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