Yumvio Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Selecting stroke and fill colors with the eyedropper tool in the Appearance tab no longer works starting in version 2.4.0. I tested by rolling back to 2.3.1 and it works fine in that version, but it doesn't work with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1. When you click and drag the eyedropper tool on any color (regardless of whether it's in the app, the canvas, the MacOS desktop, etc) the colored circle next to it stays black and never changes. The regular eyedropper tool does work but it's a lot more annoying to use because I have to keep context switching out of the mini pop up window for selecting colors. I am using a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 with Sonoma 14.1.1. I tested with just the laptop screen, an external monitor only, and extended mode with both the laptop screen and external monitor and it's the same behavior for all three cases. I have the Screen Recording permissions enabled for Affinity Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Hi @Yumvio, I can confirm I'm seeing the same behaviour in 2.4.0 and 2.4.1... The moment you start to drag the eyedropper tool, the colour panel closes resulting in no colour selection being made... Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2415) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 2 hours ago, Hangman said: The moment you start to drag the eyedropper tool, the colour panel closes resulting in no colour selection being made... There's another report of that somewhere, within the past week if I remember correctly, and it's logged as a Mac-only problem. But I can't find it right now. Hangman 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: There's another report of that somewhere, within the past week if I remember correctly, and it's logged as a Mac-only problem. But I can't find it right now. You're not wrong, it's logged under AF-2434. walt.farrell 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2415) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 8 hours ago, Yumvio said: the eyedropper tool in the Appearance tab no longer works I can confirm having experienced this just a few days ago when trying to apply a gradient to multiple fills. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yumvio Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 4 hours ago, Hangman said: You're not wrong, it's logged under AF-2434. Thank you! I searched the forums for "eye dropper" for other bug reports but didn't think to search for "colour picker" Hangman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ldina Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Yup, same here. Color picker doesn't work for fills or strokes. Silders and Color Wheel work, but not color picker. I also noticed that often, when I add a new stroke to an object, it disappears from the Appearance Panel, even if I use the sliders or boxes to pick the color. It's as if I never added an additional stroke in the first place. Designer v2.4.1 on 2017 Intel MacBook Pro, Ventura. Quote 2017 15" MacBook Pro, 16 MB RAM, Ventura v13.6.6, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher v1 & v2, Adobe CS6 Extended, LightRoom v6, Blender, InkScape, Dell 30" Monitor, Canon PRO-100 Printer, i1 Spectrophotometer, i1Publish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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