Creating Custom Palettes; Renaming Palettes; Changing The Active Palette; Importing Palette Files - AMX MIO-R4 Operation/Reference Manual

Creating Custom Palettes

1. Select Panel > Edit Palettes (or click the toolbar button) to open the Edit Palettes dialog. By
default, the palette that is currently being used for the active Project is selected. Note that it is tagged
as (active) in the drop-down list.
2. Click the New button to clear the palette index of all entries. By default, the new palette is titled
Unnamed, as indicated in the palette selection drop-down list in the upper-left corner of this dialog.
3. To add palette entries (colors) to this palette, use the cursor in the Color Value chart, in conjunction
with the Hue/Sat/Bright, Red/Blue/Green, opacity (and/or Hex value) to specify the color that you
want to add to the palette.
4. Enter a description of the new palette entry in the Name text field. This is optional, but highly
recommended since this is the name that will appear with the color in the palette when the view
option is set to details.
5. Click on the Commit button to add the selected color (and color name if applicable) to the selected
slot in the palette.
6. Repeat steps 3 - 5 to add as many additional colors to this palette as needed.

Renaming Palettes

1. Select Panel > Edit Palettes (or click the toolbar button) to open the Edit Palettes dialog. By
default, the palette that is currently being used for the active Project is selected. Note that it is tagged
as (active) in the drop-down list.
2. Select the palette that you want to rename from the palette selection drop-down list, in the upper-left
corner of this dialog.
3. Click the Rename button to open the Rename dialog.
4. Enter the new name for this palette in the text field and select OK.
5. The new name of the palette is indicated in the palette selection drop-down list. Note that the new
name overwrites the previous name (removing the previous name from the list).

Changing the Active Palette

To select a different palette to use, select Panel > Edit Palettes (or click the toolbar button) to access the
Edit Palettes dialog, and select from the listing of available palettes in the palette selection drop-down
list, in the upper-left corner of the dialog.

Importing Palette Files

You can import palette (*.PAL) files for use in your project via the Import option in the Edit Palettes
dialog:
1. Select Panel > Edit Palettes to open the Edit Palettes dialog.
2. Click the Import button to access the Open dialog. Use this dialog to locate and select the desired
*.PAL file.
3. Click Open to import the selected palette file and close the Open dialog.
4. If you desire to make the imported palette the active palette, you must select the Set Active button at
the top of the dialog.
When you copy a button from one project into another project that is using a different
palette, the pasted button will use the palette that is currently active in the project that
the button is copied into (as opposed to the palette that was used to create the
button). Depending on the differences between the palette in the button's source
project and the palette in the target project, this can cause color shifting on the
button.
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