How to change color of a shape?

[gumbo23]

I have drawn a rectangle and want to change the color, but cannot do so.

It is the top layer, but will not respond to any color selection I make using the wheel.

I know it's absurdly simple but I cannot get it to work.

[gumbo23]

I used the flood fill tool and this worked.

But I thought that when you had something selected then started messing with the color panel that you would see the colors apply in real time to the selected object.

Am I wrong on that?

[walt.farrell]

What did you draw that rectangle with? It wasn't drawn with the Rectangle Tool (which would behave as you think it should) as the Layer panel just shows that you have a Pixel layer, not a Rectangle layer.

[gumbo23]

55 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

What did you draw that rectangle with? It wasn't drawn with the Rectangle Tool (which would behave as you think it should) as the Layer panel just shows that you have a Pixel layer, not a Rectangle layer.

I did use the rectangle tool, and cannot explain why it ended up as a pixel layer. 

I'll experiment and see if I can get it working as intended.

Cheers Walt