Here's my wtf moment for the day (or night.. it was a long Sunday night or work): I'm in the Flash 8 IDE and can create these nifty .clr and .act files and drop them into
C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\Color Sets
along with the other .clr files (greyscale, mac, tone, windows) and assume they're going to show up on a menu somewhere, right? I mean.. then I could bundle the little .clr files up in a MXP file, share it with others and have them enjoy the goodness. ? Not that I can find.. they have to go into a flyout menu and choose "Add Colors" each freakin time they want to enjoy the rainbow of colors. wtf?...

oh.. wait a minute.. so there's sort of a way .. gee.. so the user has to choose that little flyout menu on the Color Swatches panel, choose Add Colors, and then "Save As Default". That's easy enough, even if it is kind of klunky. I guess you get used to using that flyout menu since you have to use it to delete the little color swatches, eh?

It sure would be nice if my swatches could get listed like that "Web 216" in the flyout menu. Yeah, that same Web 216 menu item that I haven't used for oh ...years.

I found a couple of .clr files for the old swatches panel though..