Colour Picker isn't working for me

[Karl Toon]

I can't seem to use the colour pickers from the style menu to pick a colour from the main drawing panel. Anyone else having this problem, or does anyone have a solution? I can use the colour pickers to select colours from outside of Moho, but not inside. It's very strange.

Thanks.

[Hoptoad]

Once my color picker in Styles stopped working for some unknown reason.
I selected the eyedropper tool in the far left menu and used it. That re-activated the color-picker in the Styles window.

[Karl Toon]

Thanks for that Hoptoad. I've just tried that and found the left picker doesn't work either!

[Hoptoad]

Thanks for that Hoptoad. I've just tried that and found the left picker doesn't work either!

Gasp! At this point of wackiness I generally save my file and turn my software off and on.

You could use copy/paste at the bottom of the Styles window to duplicate your shapes' fill/stroke colors.

A script might be the culprit. Other than that, I'm out of ideas. Good luck!

[Greenlaw]

It's working here, both in the Style window (regular or custom styles) and when I open the color picker panel. You guys are click-hold and dragging to use it right? This behavior is different from how the picker works in most other programs where you typically click-release and then click again.

Which version/platform? I'm running Moho 13.5.5 on Windows. Can't confirm for Mac here.

[Hoptoad]

It's working here, both on the Style panel (regular or custom) and when I open the color picker panel. You guys are click-hold and dragging to use it right? This behavior is different from how the picker works in most other programs where you typically click-release and then click again.

Which version/platform? I'm running Moho 13.5.5 on Windows. Can't confirm for Mac here.

In my case, it was probably user-error. I probably forgot to click, hold and drag. But I can't say for sure. But it was probably me. 50% likely it was me. Maybe 60%.

Who am I kidding, of course it was me.

[Karl Toon]

Been using the color-pickers for as long as I've used Moho - since version 12. Never seen this problem before. Have tried closing down Moho and re-opening. Problem still there. Last thing to try is complete system re-boot. Will be back in five!

[Karl Toon]

Dare I say, FFS. Still not working. The only thing left would be to re-install Moho, which I'm loathe to do really. My workaround is to have my colour palette open outside of Moho and grab the colours from there.

Win 11, Moho 13.5.5. Build 20220524 (64 bit)

[Karl Toon]

AND, now I can't grab colours from outside of Moho. Re-install coming up!

[Karl Toon]

Re-installed. Still having problems with color-picker in Style.

[Karl Toon]

SOLVED

Okay, so was hunting around for any other color-picker problems and came across this post: https://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33184

After a quick glance through it, I saw something about System -> Display -> Scale, and remember going through the settings a couple of days ago and thought it odd that the display was scaled at 150%, so changed it to 100%, which seemed more correct. Anyway, changing it back to 150% has solved the problem. Still think it's strange but at least it is fixed. Woo hoo!!!!!

[Greenlaw]

That's very interesting and thanks for posting your solution.

Yeah, Moho seems sensitive to certain display scaling combinations. Compatibility has improved over the years but there can still be problems.

The ideal display settings for Moho seems to depend on finding the right combination of resolution vs. the scale settings. For me, I generally stick with 1920 x 1080 @ 100% for laptops, tablet computers, and other smaller display devices. For me, it's more important to be able to see and read a smaller screen than it is to maximize the pixel resolution. For larger desktop displays, I will use the default setting so long as the screen comfortably readable and works with Moho.

[Karl Toon]

Final solution to this. Basically, as long as both monitors on a dual monitor system are set to the same scale, then the problem disappears.

[EricTheFish]

I'm using a 3 screen setup, main screen @ 3840x2160 and the other two @ 1680x1050. I use the extra screens for toolbars and reference material etc.
I also hit the same colour picker issues with various screen res/scaling as Mad Dog.

I found that as long as the Style panel resides on the main screen, colour pickers work as normal with the main screen but cannot pick colours from the extra screens.
Dragging the Style panel onto an extra screen still allows the colour pickers to select colours from the main screen, but now of course, the Style swatches can't be selected.

I just drag the Style panel between screens when I need to pick colours.

Hoping for a fix for this!