Skip to main content

dynamic - Making ColorSetter work like a PasteButton


I might be missing something obvious here. I am building a palette for constructing code to make certain graphics. The idea is that my colleagues can click buttons instead of having to know the right commands. So PasteButton[] is an obvious help. Where I have gotten stuck is in color definition. What I want is for the user to be able to select a color on a ColorSlider, and then click a button to paste the RGBColor[] value selected in that ColorSlider at the notebook insertion point. I do not want the code pasted in this way to update subsequently when the user chooses a different color in the ColorSlider


This is what I have so far, but the resulting pasted code does not pick up when the user has selected a different color in the slider. Pasting Dynamic[col] instead of Setting[col] results in a piece of code that changes when a different color is selected in the slider, which as I mentioned is not the desired behaviour.


Grid[{{PasteButton[

Graphics[{Dynamic[col], Rectangle[]}, ImageSize -> 26],
Setting@col, ImageSize -> 26, ImageMargins -> 0, FrameMargins -> 0],
ColorSlider[Dynamic[col], ImageSize -> {75, 25},
AppearanceElements -> "Spectrum"]}}, Spacings -> 0, Alignment -> Bottom]

enter image description here


The idea is that the user clicks on a color in the spectrum zone, and then clicks the button on the left that looks like a swatch.


How do I modify / rewrite this code to achieve the desired behaviour?



Answer



If you wrap your entire widget (as currently shown in your code), in Dynamic, it will work. The reason is that without it, changes is col are not propagated to PasteButton.



Comments