Request: Turning Colour into Global Colour (afterwards)

[Joachim_L]

1. Create a colour in a palette and do not make it Global.

2. Create an element and assign the colour to this element.

3. Deselect the element, select it again and you see that the colour is highlighted (active / assigned) in the palette.

4. Turn the colour into a Global Colour and change the colour values.

Result: The already correctly colour assigned element does not reflect the changes in colour values. To avoid the extra work of re-assigning colours, please change this behaviour.

As a sidenote: Highlighting active colours in the palette is also a field for improvement. E.g. create an element with different colours for stroke and fill. If stroke colour is in foreground on the Swatches panel the colour is highlighted in the palette. If you now change fill colour to the foreground, the colour for the stroke stays. You have to deselect the element and select it again to have the fill colour highlighted in the palette.

[fde101]

26 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

To avoid the extra work of re-assigning colours, please change this behaviour.

I don't believe this is technically feasible, and might not be possible at all if undo history has been lost since the assignment was made... or even if it wasn't for that matter...  the whole point of a non-global swatch is that there is no link between the objects and the swatch, so if the color was assigned to the object while the swatch was non-global there would be no way for the program to identify it as being associated with the swatch after it was converted.

The swatch needs to be made a global color BEFORE assigning it to the objects.