1
$\begingroup$

Im trying to trigger this eyedropper for this color property (the vertex color in Paint mode in Grease pencil):

image

The eyedropper is triggered when pressing E but only when the mouse is hovering the property.

I was wondering if I can trigger that eyedropper directly, without having to hover it.

If Im not wrong, the operator that is being called when pressing E is ui.eyedropper_color.

I tried to directly call bpy.ops.ui.eyedropper_color() but -as Im not surprised- didn't work.

Any clue? Is it doable?

Thank you so much for any help!

Improve this question
$\endgroup$

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
0
$\begingroup$

I don't know how to trigger the eyedropper programmatically, but:

The idea behind triggering the eyedropper with E while hovering over the property is rather a byproduct of its real use: While hovering over the palettes in the Tools-Property panel, which makes much more sense.

So, open the properties Panel / Tools as shown in the image, hover over your desired color in the Coler picker or the Palette, press E and select your color.

Color picker

There are waaay too much functions in Blender to match the keyboard, and E is used in other contexts for different purposes (Extrude), so having keystrokes being limited to certain UI-Areas is one way to accomplish having more functions available as Keystroke-commands.

Improve this answer
$\endgroup$
1
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you so much for the help friend! Indeed, is a good decission for having more functions in the same key. That eyedropper seems to me like some kind of intermediate/wrapper process for then triggering a color picker to a certain property (I was hoping we were able to kinda bypass that first 'step' but I think is not possible, I cant find anything in the API). Thanks again :) $\endgroup$
    – Ommadawn
    Commented Oct 7, 2023 at 14:54

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .