Tangerine Help Docs - Dragging and Dropping onto a Color Well

Dragging and Dropping onto a Color Well

It is recommended that you read Using Tangerine with your Favorite Applications before continuing as it provides an overview of Tangerine concepts and terminology.

Many applications built for OS X – by Apple and third party developers – use the Color Well control to set colors in their applications. A Color Well usually appears as a rectangular button with the active color visible on top. See diagram below.

Color Well Controls

The 'Color' Action in the Default Actions Library allows a color swatch to be dragged from the Palette window and dropped onto a color well. However, before this can happen, Tangerine's Event Actions Pairings must be configured as follows: the 'Color' Action must be paired to a drag Event for the Actions Library or the Custom Profile of the application you are working in. This configuring ensures the swatch color is converted into the appropriate format when you drag and drop the swatch from the Palette window (i.e a format that can be accepted by the color well). For more information see Default Actions Library and Modifying Event Action Pairings.

To drag and drop a color onto a Color Well:

Position the cursor over the color swatch in the Palette window.
Hold down the mouse button and drag the color swatch from the palette, then position the cursor over the Color Well and release the mouse button. The color should now be set in the Color Well.

Applying and Retrieving Colors in Your Applications

Using Tangerine with your Favorite Applications
Setting Colors in Applications

Taking Colors from Applications

Customising How Tangerine Integrates with Applications

Actions Libraries

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