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Re: Button Help Example

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg81254] Re: Button Help Example
• From: j.f.b.payne at tesco.net
• Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:30:34 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <fclav5$fcj$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hello David,

Try

Button["Color...", Print[SystemDialogInput["Color"]]]

On Windows XP this works if you click on one of the _existing_
colours.
Moving the cursor round on the large continuous colour square seems to
be just for "adding custom color", so unless you do that, it has no
effect.

John

On 17 Sep, 08:39, "David Park" <djmp... at comcast.net> wrote:
> One of the examples in the Button documentation is one that opens the color
> selector:
>
> Button["Color...", SystemDialogInput["Color"]]
>
> It does indeed open the color selector, but when one selects a color and
> clicks OK nothing seems to happen.
>
> Can anyone turn this into a useful and functional example?
>
> --
> David Park
> djmp... at comcast.nethttp://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/