Here's a fun thing

[Michael Domino]

When I have my "Shapebuilder" tool selected, as I have a lot, I cannot apply colour to my objects just by clicking in my swatches palette as I can with any other tool (according to my little unscientific research :·)

It's not a big deal, but I wonder why that is?

++michael

[Monika Gause]

Can you doubleclick the shapebuilder tool in the tool panel and see if it is set up to pick color from the swatches?

[Kurt Gold · Accepted solution]

I think it just does not work the way you may expect at the moment, no matter what settings you take in the Shape Builder tool options.

Obviously, selecting a swatch in the Swatches palette while the Shape Builder tool is active just somehow transfers this information exclusively to the Shape Builder and instructs it to use that swatch colour when doing the next click on an area that can be filled with it.

Probably it is an intended behaviour.

[Michael Domino]

Thank you for your replies - I have ticked the "pick colour from...", but in this case it is the same behavior ;–)

@Kurt Gold : you are right, I guess it is considered nomal behavior, but still, I think it would be useful.

If I draw fx a shoe with my penciltool, and I want to draw the sole underneath in a different colour, I draw a shape that goes outside my first path, click my shortcut to the shapebuilder tool, hold the "alt" and removes the excess part. Then I need to shift tool to something else (mostly of course back to the drawing tool) - before I can colour the new path with a click from the swatches palette. I some cases I use the knife tool to cut the shapes and then I can just click as I would expect it. 

Like I said - it is no big deal -  It just took me a while to work out why I needed the extra clicks :·)

Best regards 

++michael

[Anna Lander · Accepted solution]

well, picking the color (swatch) sets which color will be used in the next Shapebuilder action, not changes the current color. It's this tool working mode.

[Michael Domino]

Thankyou :·)

I guess, I just use the tools in a slightly different way - It´s not the first time :·)

++m