Some otherwise identical numeric controls have white behind numbers, others have grey

[smercurio_fc]

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wildcatherder wrote:

You got it tbob .  Have to change the BACKGROUND color for the brush to color a background - riiiiight.  

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Did I not say "move to the area that you want to color"? Wouldn't that be the area inside the control's numeric box? What else would you be trying to color?

See where the tool is? Now right-click and move the cursor over the color palette.

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 06-08-2010 01:50 PM

[tbob]

Smercurio.  He was setting the foreground color in the color picker, but not the background color.  So when he tried to change the background color in the indicator, it would not change because he did not choose a different background color in the color picker.  Evidently he didn't know what the two color picker boxes were for.  Now he does. 

[smercurio_fc]

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tbob wrote:

Smercurio.  He was setting the foreground color in the color picker, but not the background color.  So when he tried to change the background color in the indicator, it would not change because he did not choose a different background color in the color picker.  Evidently he didn't know what the two color picker boxes were for.  Now he does. 

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Yes, but that's all irrelevant if you move the coloring tool to the area I show in the picture and right-click. It automatically selects the background color since there isn't another color to change in this case. 

[tbob]

I don't think you understand what he was doing wrong.  Lets say the background was set to white.  He opened the color picker and picked a grey color in the foreground box, not knowing this box was particular to foreground.  He was thinking this would color the background grey.  He did not change the background color at all, it remained white.  So when he pointed the paintbrush inside the control and clicked, the background color did not change.  Now he knows that he has to pick the color in the correct box to change the background color.  His problem was in picking the proper color box, not with using the paintbrush tool.

[smercurio_fc]

I understand all that. Let me reiterate:

"...if you move the coloring tool to the area I show in the picture and right-click. It automatically selects the background color since there isn't another color to change in this case."

[tbob]

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smercurio_fc wrote:

I understand all that. Let me reiterate:

"...if you move the coloring tool to the area I show in the picture and right-click. It automatically selects the background color since there isn't another color to change in this case."

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Now I see what you are saying.  I guess he did not right click as you told him to do.  Instead he used the color picker, then the brush tool, as I usually do.

Anyway, this is a useful shortcut.  I've never done it this way.  One step instead of two.  Thanx for the hint.  It took me a while to get what you were actually saying.