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Mouse Highlighter Conflicts with Color Picker #27942

Open KenzKD opened 1 year ago

KenzKD commented 1 year ago

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.72.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

None

Area(s) with issue?

ColorPicker, Mouse Utilities

Steps to reproduce

  1. Enable Color Picker and Mouse Highlighter in Power toy settings
  2. Go to Enable Mouse Highlighter -> Appearance and behavior -> Always Highlight color. Change the color and opacity to have it visible. Mine is set to #80FFFF00
  3. Press the Activation shortcut for the Mouse Highlighter and have the Highlighter show up.
  4. Press the Activation shortcut for the Color Picker.

✔️ Expected Behavior

To get the Color code of the screen without an extra tint from the highlighter.

❌ Actual Behavior

I get the color code but it is tinted with my Highlight color. Eg. HEX : 0d1117 gets tinted with yellow from the Highlighter to become HEX : 86880b

Other Software

No response

ethanfangg commented 1 year ago

Able to repro

KenzKD commented 4 months ago

I think Changing the Shape of the Mouse Highlighter to be a hollow Circle will prevent this.

We can also use different shapes to distinguish between between different Mouse buttons i.e. Right Mouse button could be a Square or Triangle and Middle Mouse could be a Star. This can help with accessibility for those who are color blind as well

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