Rave Reports Visual Designer

Color Palette - Editor

The Color Palette is the tool used to change a color of a selected object such as a line, box text, or the fill area in one of the shapes (circle, ellipse, rectangle or square).

In the figure above, the section labeled A displays any custom colors created by the user. Section B displays the Primary color currently selected. Section C displays the currently selected secondary color. Any of the other color squares serve as the actual color palette from which A, B, and C may be created or selected.

To change the color of an object, select the object and either left or right click on the Color Palette. A left-click selects the foreground or primary color while the right-click selects the background or secondary color. When a primary color is selected, a “1” will be placed on the corresponding color on the palette. Similarly, a “2” will be placed indicating the secondary color. This is in addition to sections B and C explained previously.

In the figure above, to change the border of the rectangle, first select it and then click on the desired color with the left mouse button (in this case Navy Blue). To change the fill color, click with the right mouse button on the color Yellow.

Double-clicking on the user defined Custom Colors (section A) or on the foreground and background color boxes (section B and C) will open a more detailed color control window called the Color Editor. From the Color Editor, custom colors can be created by adjusting the red, green and blue values, as well as the saturation of the color by increasing or decreasing the color percentage.

To create and save a new color, use one of the Custom Colors to enter into the Color Editor, then click on the New Color button and choose the desired color from the Color dialog box. By entering the Color Editor from one of the Custom Color boxes, the new color will be saved. If the Color Editor is entered from either the primary or secondary color boxes, the color will only be saved in those boxes until a new color is chosen (either by clicking on the right or left mouse button or by the creation of another color).

It is important to note that the actual exhibited colors are dependent on the display settings of the computer. If there are issues with colored objects when transferring reports from one system to another, check the display color settings. A 256-color setting only uses 256 colors for display, where as a True Color setting uses millions of colors. Thus, for example, if a report is created on a system set at True Color, and then viewed on another system set at 256 Colors, some objects may appear grainy or to have the wrong color shadings.