Color Picker Goes Wack...

When I was doing a vertical gradient on horizontal menu buttons, the little circle in the color picker field/box that is supposed to travel around (while dragging here 'n there) went wack...wouldn't follow the cursor and kept snapping to the other gradient color (an orange) in the color box. Eye dropper in the box eventually worked, but the box has some kind of code problem. Hope you guys don't release another software pkg. as bad as the deplorable, clunky Fireworks. Muse has the potential to be a game changer in web design...but at beta 7, it's rife with bugs and still far from Gold Master status. Better recruit some of the PS CS6 crew...that software is masterfully executed. V1 release will never happen in "early 2012"...regrettably.

MP,
It seems that the issue is caused by a corrupt folder called en_US or similar (depending on language) within the Adobe Illustrator 18 Settings folder, see post #7 by Jules in this thread,
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1595766
so the solution should be to move or rename that folder (or the whole Adobe Illustrator 18 Settings folder).
You can find the folder in Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed.
The folder can also be found through this:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/preference-file-location-illustrator.html
As a temporary roundabout way, you can select the lower rectangle to the right of the rainbow and DoubleClick to apply that to change the top rectangle and the values: the lower colour is the right one.

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richaro wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I have Freehand installed on three machines: 2 pc's and
a Mac. On my Mac, the
> color picker works beautifully. But on my pc's, whenever
I select the color
> wheel icon, I am brought to the standard box containing
cubes of about 30 basic
> colors or so. The only option I have to select my own
color is to use the
> mixer and tints.
>
> Does anyone know of a fix for this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rachel
>
>

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