A Color-Picker is a needed thing for a UI Editor
Something Xojo should also have (let’s say it is a MUST have) is a multi-mode Color Picker. I didn’t get why it is only a rudimentary solution. Netbeans Matisse for example had even one like the shown in 2003. There is another functional leak for the Xojo Gang. All we need for Design would be the right way to build a Designer. Like to have Layout Manager and Color-Selection Model and so on. QT has it in it’s visual Designer, Matisse has it, JFormdesigner also. Microsoft left the path of visual GUI builders completely (why ever they have done it). But there is also a big amount of problems building a visual Designer IDE. That’s the foundation for building instead of a visual Designer a declarative UI language and let the users build their UI’s there.
So there is also a chance to use external picker solutions and paste the resulting code. As more people using declarative UI (Xaml for example) there is no visual designer provided for the languages in the future. One example for a different approach ist for example JavaFX. You have a declarative UI in JavafX with their fxml language and on top the Scenebuilder as a drag and drop WYSIWYG gui editor. So JavaFX has both approaches for GUI development. Declarative and graphical editor. I don’t get why Microsoft is not going this way also. Dotnet would be much more interesting for many users when and ih there would be a technology like this behind.
One of Xojo’s goodies is the UI editor which has a good usability. Except missed color picker feature. Something Java for example has. I didn’t get why there is no implementation in their IDE to have that. But this kind of decisions are made from the Master of enginering in austin. So there aalso never will be one.