How do I invoke a system color palette?

Thierry Douez th.douez at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 04:18:40 EST 2013


Hi Graham,

Have you checked :  answer color  ?

HTH,

Thierry


2013/2/14 Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com>

> I realise this is a fairly dumb question, but I couldn't find anything in
> the usual RunRev docs: in a desktop app which will run on Mac or Windows,
> and maybe on Linux too, how do I offer the user some form of a system
> palette for choosing colors (or indeed colours, as we Europeans say)? I see
> that the IDE itself does it, but how? I realise that once I have the
> ability to do this, I may need to simplify the user's choice - in the Mac
> at least, there are some palettes with restricted numbers of colours, which
> would be fine for my app. So maybe I need to understand a little more than
> the basics. I also have an uncomfortable feeling that in the *nix world
> this won't be so easy, so maybe I have to give it a miss and just use a
> dropdown list of colour names, but I need advice on that too.
>
> Can anyone point me to documentation, tutorial or examples on this?
>
> TIA
>
> Graham
>
>
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