color issue

[sargumphigaus]

So i'm animating this bird or whatever and I'm discovering a bunch of problems. I swear, i'm spending more time wrestling with the bugs in this program than I am actually animating. Take the fill color issue for instance. in the middle of trying to select a color, I just out of the blue, lose the ability to select colors period. The only way to fix it, is to establish a new style, but then three moves later, It just turns back to white and once more, when i change the color, it automatically returns to white. I checked the tutorials, and help menu instructions or whatever, nothing. So i'm stuck. I don't know if this is an oddly specific setting that I missed, or if this is a legitimate bug of the program.

[eric1223]

Thanks for bringing this up. I thought I was the only one having this problem, so I just stayed back. For me, restarting the program helps, and fixes the problem, but the bug may still come back again. Another work around I know about is to select the shape, and change its color from there.

[synthsin75]

So i'm animating this bird or whatever and I'm discovering a bunch of problems. I swear, i'm spending more time wrestling with the bugs in this program than I am actually animating. Take the fill color issue for instance. in the middle of trying to select a color, I just out of the blue, lose the ability to select colors period. The only way to fix it, is to establish a new style, but then three moves later, It just turns back to white and once more, when i change the color, it automatically returns to white. I checked the tutorials, and help menu instructions or whatever, nothing. So i'm stuck. I don't know if this is an oddly specific setting that I missed, or if this is a legitimate bug of the program.

Sounds like user error to me. Can you post a video showing this happen?

[SpaceBoy64]

Sounds like to me that you changed the color while not at frame 0, so you accidentally set a key frame somewhere.

If that's not the case, I have no idea, since I've never had this problem. When changing color fills, you must select an object's shape. You may be forgetting to do this, it's easy to do. Sometimes I'm working with an object and I go over to the color menu and make changes, then realize nothing happened, because I hadn't selected the shape. It's not like Illustrator. There can be many color fills (shapes) within the same vector object, which can get confusing real quick. The "hide shape" function comes in very handy here. Select the shape, click hide. If there is another shape beneath that, you'll see it. You can select that and delete it. Also, you may have a "shape" that only consists of an outline, no fill. Use "raise shape" or "lower shape" depending on where you want it.


Hope that helps.
What version are you using?