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Updated to pinta version 2.0.2 - I am now unable to figure out how to get the rgb value of a given a pixel

Asked by zsdfv

I need to be able to click a pixel and determine the color, ideally the RGB value but a hexcolor code would be acceptable (but worse). With the old UI I was able to use the color dropper, click a pixel, and then click the color box near the color palette to obtain this information.

Not sure how to get this info on the current version. The choose your (primary/secondary) color dialogue box doesn't have it anymore. Clicking the custom color button doesn't display this either, it starts at #BF4040.

I'm sure I'm missing something, but I can't figure out how to get this info. Any help would be appreciated.

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Best Cameron White (cameronwhite91) said : 		#1

The UI changed a bit since GTK3 has a new color selection dialog
After opening the color selection dialog from clicking on the primary color in the palette, the color you picked from the tool should be in the Custom section at the bottom.
Then if you right-click on it there's a Customize option, which lets you edit the color and shows the correct hex code

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zsdfv (sdfvg) said : 		#2

Thanks Cameron White, that solved my question.

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zsdfv (sdfvg) said : 		#3

If I may make a suggestion, I think it'd be more intuitive if clicking the + to customize the color set the initial color to the currently highlighted color in the "choose your (primary/secondary) color" dialogue. Then you could get rid of the right click -> customize code, because functionally it's the same, it's just a question of what the default color is.

In any case thank you for the answer. Pinta is a good program that I'm glad exists.

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Cameron White (cameronwhite91) said : 		#4

Yeah, I agree that'd be better. This dialog is the standard Gtk color chooser dialog, so it's not something Pinta can directly customize. It might behave differently already in GTK4 though (Pinta is still using GTK3)