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Advanced Paste - Paste as RGB #34386

Open kayleighember opened 1 month ago

kayleighember commented 1 month ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Advanced Paste should allow for hex color values to be pasted into the default Windows color picker. The hex value would be converted to three separate pastes into the three separate RGB input boxes. User would paste into the "R" box and the "G" and "B" boxes would subsequently be filled.

Scenario when this would be used?

This would be useful for any application that still restricts users to an RGB color choice. It's a inconvenience to try to remember the three RGB values selected from the color picker, and it would be much more useful to allow users to just paste it in.

Supporting information

This is a problem that doesn't seem to have an easy solution. I found that most forum posts now point to a piece of deprecated software called "Jovian," which was able to override the default behavior of opening up the Windows API ChooseColor function.

crutkas commented 1 week ago

This actually would be hit or miss behavior wise. Color picker can do these style conversions too as FYI

crutkas commented 1 week ago

My thing is having one system to get focus on 3 text boxes we don’t control, not a predictable outcome for us