Re: OPEN COLOR PICKER or OBJECT SET RGB COLORS inconsistencies

2017-10-01 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Miyako, Well thanks for showing me that. I see what you're talking about now. When I've dealt with this sort of thing before it was in the context of reconciling colorspaces within a program like Photoshop to an output device like monitor, printer or such. It never occurred to me the color picker w

Re: OPEN COLOR PICKER or OBJECT SET RGB COLORS inconsistencies

2017-10-01 Thread Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech
Hello, in your original post you mentioned the "web safe" color profile, a collection of 216 colors. find "burnt orange" (FF6600) in that pane, and select it. switch to "RGB" (second from left) and click the cogwheel. select device color space (the one that 4D uses). you will see that the hex

Re: OPEN COLOR PICKER or OBJECT SET RGB COLORS inconsistencies

2017-10-01 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Hi Miyako, I take the point that the representation of a given RGB value (whatever it may be) will differ depending on the color space and the capabilities of the device that's displaying it. That's why we calibrate our monitors. But I don't see how that's relevant here. I think we're talking abou

Re: OPEN COLOR PICKER or OBJECT SET RGB COLORS inconsistencies

2017-09-29 Thread Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech
on the color picker panel you should find a cogwheel icon, which allows you to pick a color space. after all, RGB is not an absolute definition unless you also specify the color space. when you use the picker tool, it will always return the RGB in the generic (NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace) space, wh

OPEN COLOR PICKER or OBJECT SET RGB COLORS inconsistencies

2017-09-29 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Hi folks, I was playing with using the OPEN COLOR PICKER command for the first time. Reasonably cool feature that really is only missing a way to close the window programmatically and get the selected value directly. But it's way better than the rgb sliders we had to use for years. I used a modif