NEED MORE COLORS IN YOUR COLOR TRAY?

Instructor users have access to a color tray for choosing colors for their objects. Assistant users have been stuck with using the little color palette in the property sheet for a particular object.

Seen below, you will see the standard color tray in ToolBook as well as a much enhanced color tray which shows things like RGB values and Hex values (useful for matching colors used in HTML)

Where did this replacement color tray come from? It is actually a tool called the Web Safe Color Tray which is available in the Developers Exchange Tools.

What is the Developers Exchange Tools? Click here to find out.

Once you launch the Tool it will behave very much like the regular color tray does, but this revised one has more colors to choose from, and in fact all of the colors in the tray are the 256 color defined as Web Safe.

This tool is written purely in OpenScript, using a viewer to display itself in. Feel free to right-click on the Tool and peek at the code under the hood if you are curious about how it works. Note that in order to peek at this code you will likely need to enable your reader-right-click option in your View | Options menu.