AE scripting: using the colorpicker

[Dan Ebberts]

I just tried it with this, and it seems to work:

var myColorPicker = $.colorPicker();
alert(myColorPicker.toString(16));

[Michael Mathes]

How very strange. I tried that, just for giggles, with the same result as before. I’m starting to think maybe it has something to do with the OS. I’m running Monterey on a late 2013 mac pro. I don’t know what else it could be…

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m on Win 11, so it’s hard to say…

[Michael Mathes]

I’ve tried this on several different systems and OS’s. And I’ve found the same thing the OP did. It all works fine and correct until you use the eye drop tool, then it’s just slightly off with any conversion after. The windows system color picker doesn’t have an eye drop tool, at least that I can find, hence there being no issue there.

Thanks for the help, I guess this continues to be unresolved.

I don’t understand why Adobe doesn’t make AE’s color picker available…