Issue with swatch pallets not showing current color

[KarinC]

This issue plagued me when creating an illustrated book in Publisher 2.1 in grayscale. I am having the same issue in Designer 2 with all of the pallets. I can reproduce it all day. It is an issue that is frustrating.

This is in Windows.

I create an object.  Note that the stroke is a pink color even though it is obviously not. (I know I have some colors in my grayscale pallet. Newbie mistake)

 

 

If I select a color for the fill all is well. The yellow for the fill is selected since I selected it.

 

However, if I select the stroke color icon, the swatch is still yellow.

I make a new object and again the stroke color is not evident. 

 

 

What color is the fill? Nothing is highlighted.

If I deselect everything then click on the layer, not the object, the fill shows up in the pallet.

 

However, if I click on the stroke icon I still get the fill color highlighted.

[Aammppaa]

Yep, all these little things are frustrating.

Another one...

Switch to a different swatch, and the first entry is (usually though not always) highlighted even though the selected object does not use that colour for fill or stroke.

[KarinC]

It was especially difficult with grayscale. I would want to darken or lighten a gray only to find that I had no idea which one I used. I would guess and usually be close but found that unless I double clicked on the color it would not stick (stay highlighted in the pallet.) For a while I used a slider that would give me the percentage of gray that I was using. I accidentally closed it and was never able to find it again.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Aammppaa said:

Switch to a different swatch, and the first entry is (usually though not always) highlighted

Palette? To me in V1 it seems the visual position of the highlighted swatch is sticky … while Affinity doesn't care at all for the colour.

<- correct palette and swatch highlight ...

… and sticking highlight regardless of the palette – while I'd expect to get either none or the according "Recent" swatch highlighted.

[lacerto]

2 hours ago, KarinC said:

This issue plagued me when creating an illustrated book in Publisher 2.1 in grayscale. I am having the same issue in Designer 2 with all of the pallets. I can reproduce it all day. It is an issue that is frustrating.

This is in Windows.

This is a bit better on macOS (at least current 2.x versions) than on Windows, but the only thing that really helps is changing to list view: