Thanks Roger I understand your solution but I prefer a graphical one.
In fact while I was waiting for a reply I grew my own, based on the Apple colors - looks like a simplified version of that palette. Of course it's not as flexible as the OS one - for example it only works in English. But it will do for my purposes, I hope. There are classes of users who only use computers for very restricted things. It is hard to understand why the average user, if not a developer or a graphics person, would want to use for example the full color disk (the first Mac option), since this can be seen as the old NTSC adage - "never twice the same color". But that's only one way of looking at it, I suppose. Thanks again Graham On 7 Apr 2013, at 22:56, Roger Eller wrote: > I don't know of a way to restrict the choices while showing the actual > colors. If your list is somewhat short, and consists or relatively common > colors, you could just list the color names. > > answer "Pick a color:" with "Red" or "Blue" or "Green" or "Orange" or > "Brown" or "Yellow" or "Purple" or "Black" or "White" > > I lean toward the OS color picker because the user should have a reasonable > familiarity with the computer/os they use every day. > ~Roger > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > >> If you script >> >> answer color >> >> or >> >> answer color with "red" >> >> etc on the Mac, you get the standard MacOS color palette, which has six >> different ways of showing colours (I'm British, it's 'colour' over here... >> but I digress). I would rather restrict the user's choice to one of the >> really simple options, the Apple colors. Is there any way of doing this >> still using the OS color picker, or do I have to roll my own? >> >> TIA >> >> Graham > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
