After Effects [Script] ColorPicker

[Jim Scott]

Uncheck “Use System Color Picker” in AE Preferences > General.

[Michael Gottwik]

Thanks,
but i need it otherwise. I need the “After Effects ColorPicker” in the script.

Any solutions?

[Jim Scott]

I’m sorry but I don’t understand your question. When I set my preferences to not use the system color picker I get this:

Are you referring to the eyedropper which you have the red arrow pointing to in your first image? Is it missing? If so, I would not know why. Also, from your first post it looks like you are on Windows, while I am on Mac, which may explain why your system Color Picker window in the second image (if that’s what it is) looks different than mine.

[Michael Gottwik]

Thanks Jim for your help!

i want the the ColorPicker which looks like yours (the black one). Because the normal system-color-picker don’t have a colorpicker(eyedropper in my first image).

Yes i have Windows. I also uncheck “Use System Color Picker” in AE Preferences > General but still get the System Color Picker :/

In my Script i use:


colorButton.onClick = function(){
myHexColor = $.colorPicker();
}


Any suggestions??

Thanks for your help!

[Clif Mitchell]

Hey Michael,

Any chance you ever found an answer to this? I’d be curious to know if it is possible. I’m getting a different interface when I run my script:

Mine at least has a colour picker, but it is hideous and doesn’t seem to return correct values when I pick a colour, anyway.

[Yaniv Cahoua]

I’d love to know as well

http://www.yanivcahoua.com

[Tim Dunn]

I’d really like to know a solution for this as well. Running AE 2020 on Windoze 10. I have the Edit>Preferences>General>Use System Color Picker, unchecked and I get the standard system colorpicker. Tried clicking it on, running, click oit off running, restarting and nothing but the system color picker.
Strange, and unhappily thing, is my c SDK scripts always brings up the correct/AE style colorpicker. I find it really hard to believe that after all these years its not exposed as a core ScriptUI/ExtendScript control.
Before someone asks why then don’t I just work with the SDK? A day to right a good script for a project versus several with the SDK. That and a bottle of aspirin (spent to much time in Python the last few years and it’s corrupted my c/c++ desires).