Issue
When I go to Outline → Edit metadata → Custom Metadata → Type: Text → Use colored text [Y] → Text color, the color wheel pops up. I try to change the color, but can’t. It stays red. What’s odd is that I was able to do this the first hour or so I was tinkering with metadata but when I was making a lot of back-and-forth changes, deleting, adding meta data, switching the information, etc, it stopped working.
Troubleshooting
I tried 1) Restarting app, 2) Deleting the Metadata and making it anew. Not sure what else to try.
Hmm…
If it works like it works under Windows, the color of the metadata text is set per custom metadata in the project settings. It is not something that you may change on the fly, while editing the said metadata content.
I’m not sure what went wrong but now it works! I went back to the one Custom Metadata point I was able to change properly last night, and changed it again. Because it worked, I tried to change the others and they followed suit. I used the pencils tab for coloring instead of the coloring wheel.
(I have no idea what the “pencil tab” is, – and frankly don’t quite understand most of your reply – blame the Windows user in me ? – but I’m glad it works. I doubt I was of any help (you thank me but I am clueless as of what), but that don’t matter.)
My guess is that the colour palette got disconnected from the colour control you were trying to change in the metadata list—rather than which tab you were using. All of the different tabs work about as well as each other in my experience, but the whole panel itself can be very flaky. This is not an uncommon problem with how the Mac’s colour panel is basically this free-floating thing you can leave up on your screen for hours, doing nothing, until you click on just the right thing somewhere to connect it with that control. Then it sends colour data to that control as you mess with it. If you click anywhere else it can lose connection and go back to just sitting there on the screen doing nothing (or changing the default text receiver, often text colour in Scrivener).
Usually you can tell because the colour control itself will acquire a highlight around it while it is actively connected to a colour palette. But with some of Scrivener’s metadata colour controls, there is no indication of when it is active.
It’s a bit messy if you ask me, but it does let you do things a little more flexibly than you could otherwise with a modal colour picker that locks you out of the program until you pick something. So there is that.
Note that the latest version of Mac OS Ventura is 13.5.1. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to update, as this sort of issue often relates to the operating system tools Scrivener uses.
