I have a minor issue happening with Scrivener. It’s not hugely important but I am finding it annoying. For some reason I can’t change the color of the labels and I only get default pastel colors. When I double click on the color, nothing happens, when previously the color selector would open up and you could choose which color you want. Anyone have this problem or know how to fix it? I’ve tried closing/ reopening the program and restarting my computer but it stays the same.
What may be of significance here is the version of macOS. I don’t see any issues here on 15.2.
Another thing to check is whether the colour palette opens at all. I would first try in the main text editor, use the Format ▸ Color... menu command or shortcut. If it doesn’t come up, then try Format ▸ Fonts ▸ Show Colors in the stock TextEdit application.
Yes, Thanks for your input. The color palette opens for texts so it isn’t a problem with the color palette. I did recently update the OS and I suspect this may be what is affecting it.
Okay, at this point I would go into settings, and under General: Warnings, enable the Show internal error alerts option. If something breaks badly enough while trying to use colours, you’ll get a message with some diagnostic data to share.
So try it with the Labels tab in Project Settings, as you have been, and look for messages.
Next, does it open for other things that might want to “attach” themselves to the palette? A few similar places in Scrivener would be in the Project ▸ Project Keywords panel, and the various colour settings scattered throughout the Appearance settings tabs.
I was having this problem as well. I am a low vision user and use the voiceover screen reader. When voiceover is enabled, the color selection for labels does not work. If I turn voiceover off, it does. I was able to turn it off, set colors that I like, then turn it back on just fine.
Note that this is very important for me since I cannot see the pastel colors that are the default values. I would not be surprised to find that others on this forum also had voice over enabled.
As far as I can tell, this is only broken for label colors. Setting colors for text or a background works fine, even when voice over is enabled.
Thank you! At last I have something I can reproduce on this.
Can you confirm though, that after you open the colour palette if you click back into the Label view, and then select a colour, if it works? For me it seems to be a problem solely with opening the panel. Once it is open I can leave it open and switch between label rows, freely changing colour values (same goes for the Project Keywords window).
I will add a note to see if there is a way to improve this. For me there is also no need to reselect the colour control when changing Appearance settings, so it must have something to do with the smaller custom control these two tools are using.
