I've mistakenly wandered in to trying to attempt this a number of times. To get around this I use the eyedropper on a 'dont care' object then cut and paste the colour in.
The method you're discussing of pasting it in when open could be confusing. I like to keep a number of menu windows open at a time (I have two monitors) and trying I imagine the selection routing could be ... grief.
What about being able to Ctrl-C with the eyedropper active and then Ctrl-V the colour into the appropriate box? This would in effect be a quicker way of doing what I do at the moment.
BTW WOW, what an absolutely awesome bit of software. I wanted an 'impact' cover for a report and went to do some clever pictures in Gimp today and couldn't work out how. So I used inkscape and the results were great!
Cheers Jamie
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of bulia byak Sent: Tuesday, 27 July 2004 5:35 p.m. To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Eyedropper for gradients
Is there a way that I can use the eyedropper for editing/creating
gradients?
Unfortunately not yet, but it's in our plans. I could link up the gradient window to the dropper, so that when that window is open, dropper would set the color of the selected gradient stop instead of the color of the entire object. But I think this may be rather confusing - what do you think?
In any case, we plan to create a gradient tool which would be able to edit gradients directly on canvas by dragging the gradient vector points, and then it will be possible to select the knot corresponding to one of the gradient stops so it grabs the color setting signals from dropper, palette (when it's done) and the color dialog (to replace the current fill&stroke dialog).
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