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Re: Layout and formatting of EER Diagrams
Posted by: Mike Lischke
Date: October 19, 2009 02:41AM

Geoffrey Hoffman Wrote:
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> Where do the default color preferences get used
> for tables and layers?

WHen you start placing a table the toolbar changes for some specific options for this operation. One of them is the color, which is one out of a set of predefined colors (these are the ones you define in the preferences dialog).

>
> On WinXP anyway, the color picker for layers and
> tables uses the OS dialog without referencing
> these colors. Shouldn't this be a dropdown with
> the colors I set in the preferences -> appearance
> pane?

This is on our todo list, as well as a better color selection in the preferences dialog.

>
> Clicking on Define Custom Colors in the Windows OS
> dialog color picker and building up a palette in
> this fashion doesn't work either... the next time
> you open the color dialog the custom colors I
> defined are gone.

This will be handled in the process of improving the general color handling.

> I discovered you also cannot paste HTML colors
> into the color field in layer/table properties
> pane. You have to go all the way into the define
> custom colors OS dialog and type in RGB values.
> This is all very time consuming.

Hmm, copy and paste does not work, though it should. Another candidate for a bug report.

Thanks

Mike

Mike Lischke, MySQL Developer Tools
Oracle Corporation

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