Drag and Drop Color Swatches from Palette to Application

You can drag color swatches from the Palette window and drop them into the active application. When a drag and drop operation occurs, Tangerine transforms the swatch color into a drag-able item. Drag-able items can take two forms:

• Text: used for dragging and dropping color syntax into text areas, or
• Color: used for dragging and dropping colors onto color wells, setting colors in the Colors panel, and in some applications (for example, Apple's iWork), to drag and drop colors onto text and graphics within a document. For more information see Dragging and Dropping onto a Color Well.

It is important to note that not all applications support drag and drop – this is particularly the case when dragging color. What's more, the only Action in Tangerine that allows color to be dragged and dropped is the "Color" Action in the Default Actions Library. For more information see Default Actions Library and Dragging and Dropping onto a Color Well.

A common use of Tangerine's drag and drop functionality is to insert color syntax in to web development or programming applications. Tangerine has several Actions that generate a variety of color syntax for multiple programming languages. See Actions Libraries to view the drag and drop Actions available in each library.

Holding down either the 'shift' key, 'option' key or 'command' key while dragging a swatch allows you to drop different variations in color syntax into an application. Use the Actions Tooltip or Actions Summary panel to determine which drag-able item – a color or syntax – will be dragged for each drag and keyboard combinations. In addition, Tangerine will generate a preview of the color syntax. This helps to confirm that the correct syntax is being dragged.

You can customise what drag-able item will be dragged for each drag/keyboard combination in the Actions window. For more information see The Actions Window – An Overview.