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### Saving colours

Whenever the user seeks to change the colour of any calendar element the menu tree will always include the following penultimate sub-menu.
The top two items give the user the choice of selecting the new colour by choosing an already-saved named colour or by the standard colour-picker window.
The bottom menu item leads to the following Colour name window, which allows the current colour to be saved with a user-chosen name.
When this window opens it will always show the current colour of the element selected by the user when activating the menu tree e.g. if, as depicted above, the user had started things off by clicking over the Year box and moved across the Box fill colour menu item then the colour shown will be the current Year box fill colour - which happens to be White. The rgb values of the colour are shown, together with a small box on the right filled with that colour.
Had the Year box been filled with ‘no colour’ then the window would have opened as in the next screen-shot i.e. the No colour option icon would be ticked and the rgb items would be greyed out - with the colour box showing ‘None’.
When there are no previously saved colours, the top right writable icon will always be initially blank. The user should enter a suitable short name here and then click on the Save button. The result will be a new file saved directly into the UserRes.Colours sub-directory with the user-chosen name as the file leaf-name. ‘No colour’ choices can be saved in the same way as other colours.
As soon as a colour has been saved, the top menu item - Use a saved colour - of the penultimate sub-menu will now lead to a menu which includes the just-saved named colour - ready to be selected in subsequent colour changes anywhere in the calendar, as and if required.
Once saved named colours exist, the possibility arises that an action to save another existing colour might involve a colour that is already saved. In that case, when the Colour name window initially opens it will show the saved name in the writable icon - as demonstrated in the next screen-shot. Here, the current colour happens to be saved already under the name wimpred.
The user can then decide to abandon the save or to duplicate the saved colour under a different extra name. (If such duplication already exists when the Colour name window opens, then the writable icon will show all saved colour matches with the file names comma-separated. The user can then resolve things as desired.
It should be noted that although the rgb values are ignored and greyed out when the No colour option icon is ticked, the rgb values are taken into account when testing for colour matches, so more than one name can be saved with ‘no colour’ and such names will only appear in the initial opening of the Colour name window if the current colour matches both the No colour icon tick and the greyed out rgb values.
Following from this, the user is at liberty to tick/untick the No colour option icon at any time before saving the colour. The window will react correspondingly - including the re-checking of any colour macthes already saved.
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