Palette buttons

[watty]

Hi, I have a question regarding palettes. I have stored colours in the colour palette and when I apply a colour to a group of fixtures the selected colour button changes to light blue. If I then select a different colour, the new button turns grey and the previous button turns back to dark blue.

If I apply a shape from the shape palette the buttons behave differently. Each time I select a new shape the previous button(s) stay light grey, therefore I can see multiple grey buttons and am unable to tell which is active just by looking at the buttons.

Am I doing something wrong to cause the button behaviour to be like this? If not, why does it behave in this manner?

Steve

[yyy898]

make sure the pallets only contain color information, you can see this at the pallet itself, if ony the C is white like in the red box below, the pallet only contains color information and thats what we want.

also please tell me what type the pallet is, thats where the green box is in the pixture

[watty]

Please check original post. The issue is with the shapes palette, not colour. The buttons all continue to stay illuminated light grey after each is pressed resulting in say four buttons light grey and only the last pressed active on the fixtures. I then have no idea which is active by looking at the buttons. The shape buttons are FX and shared (one group of fixtures). Hope this clarifies things.

Steve

[Gregory]

The light blue colour for a palette is to indicate that the palette is controlling (has set) at least one attribute that is in the programmer. This can be enabled or disabled via the Highlight Active Palettes user setting. Palettes are greyed out to indicate that they do not contain information related to the currently selected fixtures. This is controlled by the Filter Relevant Palettes user setting.

The highlight function is not fully implemented for shape palettes so it does not turn off when the palette is no longer in use.

[watty]

Thanks Gregory. I may have confused matters by referring to active palette buttons as light grey and also light blue. I should have said in all cases, light blue, i.e. active.

The last sentence of your response answers my question. IMO it would be much better if only the last relevant button was highlighted and the preceding one went back to dark blue, but Hey Ho!

Thanks again for clarifying this one as I was wasting a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.

Cheers,

Steve