Can I restrict the color options on Mac?

[Graham Samuel]

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
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