STOP adding colors to my list??

[barb]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Steve Mills wrote:

> True, that *should* add that color to the doc you pasted into,  
> because it does not match any color currently in the document. It  
> certainly won't match the existing default Blue because the color  
> is different. Oh, but I think I see what you're talking about. If  
> you paste *again*, then you'll get a 2nd version of that color,  
> correct? That's because the original color's name is "Blue". In the  
> destination doc, there is a color named "Blue", but it has  
> different color values than the pasted color. There is also a newer  
> color named "Blue 1" with the different color values. Since pasted  
> color "Blue" does not match the color value in the existing "Blue",  
> and because it doesn't match the name of "Blue 1", then the only  
> logical thing left to do is to add it as a new color, and it's name  
> will become "Blue 2".

But what if, like Rick said, Creator could do with colors as it does  
with fonts. If you go to paste an item into a doc and it has the same  
name as an already existing color in that doc but is not the same  
color formula, then couldn't Creator give a prompt such as "this  
document already contains a color Blue" and then ask you if you want  
this element that you are importing to be the Blue that is already in  
the doc, or the Blue from the doc it is being imported from (thereby  
renaming it Blue 1 or whatever). Since the problem occurs when the   
"different" colors have the identical name, then if Creator could  
just flag that as you import the element from the other doc the user  
would be alerted to the issue and be able to assign the actual color  
that is already being used in the doc, or keep the new imported color.

Barb