Picking both color and stroke from another object?

[Elarionus]

I have objects in my project with many different stroke colors and fill colors. I would like to be able to use the eyedropper tool with another object selected, click on an object, and have the original object's fill and stroke be updated to match the object that was selected. Is there a way to do this?

[v_kyr]

I assume you mean in ADe here (though works for the other apps in the same manner)? - Yes that's easy see the "Edit" top menu, select the source object and "Copy aka Ctrl-/Cmd-C" it, then select the target object and apply "Paste Style aka Shift-Ctrl/Cmd-V".

If you have many objects to deal with, you can also make an own styles palette out of all the source objects stroke/fill colors bitmaps instead, which you then reuse and then apply a style from that styles palette to any of the target objects!

See further ...

• Styles
• Styles Panel

[walt.farrell]

Or, if you're using Designer V2, try the Style Picker Tool: https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_stylePicker.html

[Petr Illek]

The style picker will help in certain scenarios, thanks for that.
But is there a way for a really simple drag&drop of the colour from the colour pallet?

Example:

I've a document with some objects. I paste in a new vector object from another document with a previously unused colour.
I want to use this colour on the other objects (but only the fill colour, not any other properties, so can't use the style picker).
I select the new object I see the colour I want in the fill colour circle, but how can I easily apply it on other objects?
Currently I found two ways. First is to use the colour picker tool next to the fill colour circle to sample the colour from the circle and then I can use it. The second is a bit more convoluted as it is using the `Add current fill to palette` button (but that requires few more steps and it is not always required.
Would it be possible to let me drag & drop the colour from the colour fill circle to the object I need?

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Petr Illek said:

Would it be possible to let me drag & drop the colour from the colour fill circle to the object I need?

Workaround: the Swatches Panel lets you drag its rectangular swatches to assign them to objects in the layout. This also works for the "Recent" colours: they don't have to be saved swatches but occur for any colour that got defined in the Colours Panel.

To make a colour of an existing object appear in the "Recent" it can be required to just click (not drag) one of its defining handles in the Colours Panel.

[lepr]

 

7 hours ago, Petr Illek said:

but only the fill colour, not any other properties, so can't use the style picker

 

Style Picker Tool has options in Context Toolbar. Attached screenshot shows it set for fill only.