Color - Swatches (pantone) - click color / drag and drop color

[FrM]

Hello,

I have 2 objects and I will change their color ( Color -> Swatches -> PANTONE SMYK Croated ). But there is different behavior when I click on color or when I drag color and drop into object.

Select first object and click on one pantone color -> color in Swatches panel is immediately deselected (I suppose it is a bug and clicked color should stay selected)

Select one of the color in Swatched (PANTONE) and drag and drop into the second object -> color in swatched is still selected

Now I can try change selection of the object and I will click on first object and than second object.
When I select first object : NO color in Swatched panel is selected (I suppose it is a bug and the clicked color should be selected)
When I select second object : dragged and dropped color is selected

If I use color from Swatches -> Colours, it works and the clicked color is selected.
Tested in Designer: 2.0.4 and 2.1beta5

 

[Dan C]

Hi @FrM,

Thanks for your report!

On 3/25/2023 at 8:48 AM, FrM said:

Select first object and click on one pantone color -> color in Swatches panel is immediately deselected (I suppose it is a bug and clicked color should stay selected)

When clicking on a Pantone Swatch to colour an object, the colour will be added as a new Global Colour in the Document Palette, meaning the Pantone Swatch itself will be deselected, and this is the expected behaviour.

However the Global Colour that is created should be named after the Pantone colour that has been selected and this is logged with our team separately so I will be sure to 'bump' this with your report now.

On 3/25/2023 at 8:48 AM, FrM said:

Select one of the color in Swatched (PANTONE) and drag and drop into the second object -> color in swatched is still selected

I can confirm this is a bug, as drag and dropping should perform the same behaviour as above, where applying the Pantone swatch creates a new Global Colour in your document palette - I will be logging this as a bug with our developers now.

On 3/25/2023 at 8:48 AM, FrM said:

Now I can try change selection of the object and I will click on first object and than second object.
When I select first object : NO color in Swatched panel is selected (I suppose it is a bug and the clicked color should be selected)
When I select second object : dragged and dropped color is selected

What should happen when selecting either of these objects is that the Global Colour swatch in your Document Palette should be selected - at no point should the Pantone Swatch in the Pantone list be selected when selecting the objects on canvas that have had this colour applied.

I hope this clears things up!