This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author terry.reedy
Recipients pramod17, terry.reedy
Date 2021-09-23.15:38:02
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1632411482.42.0.461198215772.issue45270@roundup.psfhosted.org>
In-reply-to
Content
IDLE has nothing to do with the operation of the color chooser.  IDLE calls a tkinter function that calls a tk functions that calls the OS Window Manager color chooser.  The choice you make is returned to IDLE as a color string that IDLE can later pass to tkinter and tk.  What you see on Windows, in your image is the MS Windows 10 color chooser.  The macOS color chooser is *completely* different.

The Windows Custom Color bar presumes that you make a small set of distinguishable custom colors.  The main use in IDLE would be if you create a custom backgound color that you want to use for multiple foreground/background pairs.  The use in Windows would be if you have a custom palette that you want to use for multiple applications.
History
Date User Action Args
2021-09-23 15:38:02terry.reedysetrecipients: + terry.reedy, pramod17
2021-09-23 15:38:02terry.reedysetmessageid: <1632411482.42.0.461198215772.issue45270@roundup.psfhosted.org>
2021-09-23 15:38:02terry.reedylinkissue45270 messages
2021-09-23 15:38:02terry.reedycreate