Fix Dreamweaver CS4 Color Eyedropper Bug

Report · Jan 30, 2009

Dreamweaver locks up when using the eyedropper from the CSS panel to select/match a color from any object in Design view. Easiest to explain by describing a split view. Dreamweaver locks every time -- when placing cursor in a background color code in a style sheet, then going to the CSS panel and selecting the background color swatch for that style, then with the eyedropper, touching a color in the Design view part of the split screen.

Dreamweaver CS3 never locked up when performing these same steps. Dreamweaver CS4, locks up whether selecting a color in a bitmap or a CSS background color that is displayed in the Design split view. Means I have to go to Fireworks to color match, and if the color I want is in a range of a gradient, I have to make the gradient a bitmap before selecting the spot with the eyedropper. I even had some difficulty in Fireworks, as the selection wouldn't show up in the color panel when I touched the bitmap with the eyedropper. I could see the color code in the popup color selector and clicked there for the color to show up in Fireworks' color panel.

Kind of a hassle...would be nice to get an update fix for this.

Report · Jan 30, 2009

prjviera wrote:
> Dreamweaver locks up when using the eyedropper from the CSS panel to
> select/match a color from any object in Design view.

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