color picker problem
Always keep color picker on top of open windows. It closed and I forgot how I set it to stay open. Can't find anything when I do a search for Color Picker.
Any solutions?
Thanks, Phyllis
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
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Color pickers are usually associated with the application from which they are opened so user color input can be fed back to the parent application. The application developer, not you, sets a color picker window level value (e.g. NSStatusWindowLevel) that forces it to the top of all other open windows.
Open the color picker from the parent application again, and it will remain open and on top until you close it again.
Let's consider Apple's Pages application for a second. If there is an open color picker and you click on another application, then the color picker panel will vanish until you click on the Pages application again, whereas the picker will then reappear as before. This might give you the illusion that you have closed it when it isn't closed, simply because its window was temporarily unmapped from the screen display to reduce clutter.