On Jul 5, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 20:37 -0700, Jon Cruz wrote:
It more is the representation of 'solid colors' in the current document. It automatically adjusts to what is in whichever is the current document.
OK, so it should do something, but it's currently broken in trunk? I just set a bunch of shapes to have a bunch of colours and Auto continues to be empty.
Last time I checked it was working in trunk, but just might be doing something other than what you expect.
Some of the convenience menu items appear to have been removed and/or changed as a "cleanup" or such, but key functionality should still be there.
To check functionality, have the "auto" palette selected, go into the Fill&Stroke dialog, then change some object's fill color from "Flat color" to "swatch" instead.
In the palette, you should see a new color show up. Try dragging this color onto several other objects.
Now, click on something other than the color-assigned objects. Click back. Repeat. Whenever you do this you should see a "selected" marker show up on the solid color that is in your current selection (if any). Since that is a single referenced "solid color" it is easy to track its use.
Now for the main magic trick. After you have several objects using a given color in the auto palette, right click on the palette entry and "edit" it. You might need to enable the legacy gradient editor for this phase. *If* things work you should get the edit UI for the swatch. If not, then you can edit it from the defs. Once you do change the color you should see all objects that had the color assigned change all at the same time.