RGB HEX ref weirdness now on Photo also

[pointandstare]

A good while ago I reported this issue when adding a colour HEX ref in DESIGNER.
Today, working on Photo, the same thing happens.

Instead of manually typing something like #000000 the box changes this to #000000000000

This, for me, makes it impossible to use, now both applications.

Please fix as a matter of urgency.

[Old Bruce]

You could try a simple restart of the computer. Gets rid of most of the cruft like this.

You could try a Reset User Defaults.

Note that this will reset various items so back up your Brushes and Assets and whatever else you have.

Quit Designer and or Photo and or Publisher and then start up while holding down the Control key (both Mac and Windows use the Control key for this). When you see the clear user .... dialog click on clear.

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, pointandstare said:

Instead of manually typing something like #000000 the box changes this to #000000000000

Try this:

1. With RGB Hex selected, click on the 'burger' menu at the top right of the Color panel
2. If in the popup menu 16 bit is selected, change it to 8 bit

[pointandstare]

On 10/21/2021 at 11:54 PM, R C-R said:

Try this:

1. With RGB Hex selected, click on the 'burger' menu at the top right of the Color panel
2. If in the popup menu 16 bit is selected, change it to 8 bit

Ah! That 'fixes' it in both Photo and Designer but, of course I want to use 16 bit so it's not fixed properly.

[BofG]

3 minutes ago, pointandstare said:

Ah! That 'fixes' it in both Photo and Designer but, of course I want to use 16 bit so it's not fixed properly.

It doesn't change your document, just the picker.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, pointandstare said:

Ah! That 'fixes' it in both Photo and Designer but, of course I want to use 16 bit so it's not fixed properly.

What do you mean by not fix properly? If you want to specify colors in 16 bit hex format, you must use 4 characters per color, exactly like it does when you set it to use 16 bit hex colors.

[pointandstare]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

What do you mean by not fix properly? If you want to specify colors in 16 bit hex format, you must use 4 characters per color, exactly like it does when you set it to use 16 bit hex colors.

Really? That's a new one on me - never heard of this before.

In that case Affinity was never broken, my knowledge was!

[R C-R]

@pointandstare, I think you might be confusing color format (like RGB/8 or RGB/16) with the color values you can set via the Colors panel.