STOP adding colors to my list??

[Steve Mills]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:29:27, barb wrote:

> 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.


That's a great suggestion. Please submit it. I'd have to think more  
about the ramifications. The warning dialog could use an iSync-like  
display and show the 2 colors side by side, along with all their  
attributes so you can see what is different or the same about them. It  
would also need to be able to handle the "without interaction" keyword  
so scripts that import or paste would not be interrupted waiting for  
user interaction.

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