Feature: Color preview directly?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 5, 2016 at 4:09am

It would be, but it'll have to wait until GH2 as it would be too much feature creep for GH1.

In fact the plan is to allow both for per-component overrides of preview properties and per data overrides. Since each data item can be associated with meta data (in GH2, note, not GH1) things like "Preview=blue" can be added to the metadata dictionary and the relevant geometry will then be displayed in blue.

Another possible way to affect preview display based on meta data would be to map meta data entries to a gradient or palette. For example some objects could be associated with "Cost=35.5" or "Cost=845.69", and those numbers can then be used to preview these objects in different ways. Such a preview override would most likely be a document setting.

Permalink Reply by Ortler Mark on July 5, 2016 at 5:11am

Hey,

in the meantime u could use something like this.
It is a tool to watch the color of the group containing 'this' component.
Its some kind of workaround to make the preview more informative.

(category:Extra / subcategory:GroupColorWatcher)

In the source u can also find a base-component-class to create components wich uses the group's color to color up the preview...

greets mark