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Use the Colour Picker's magnifying glass to grab any colour
Authored by: nevyn on May 12, '03 05:21:17PM

You could do this back in the Classic days by holding the alt/opt key and clicking anywhere on the screen. But since it is not a frontmost-only dialog in X, they had to use the magnifying glass...

I was devastated when I noticed that alt-clicking didn't work anymore, because this is really a *killer feature*. Try it, it's GREAT! For example, if you use several colors in TextEdit, you can just use the glass over some written text, click on it (but be sure to hit a fully colored pixel, and not an antialiased one), and boom, you're writing with the selected color!



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