By JasonMR on

I just wanted to check, if anyone else has run into this problem.

The colour picker to select a colour scheme for the Garland theme has mysteriously disappeared. Has anyone else run into this issue, as I'm having trouble replicating it?

Thanks for any feedback.

Bright Regards
JasonMR

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

victorkane’s picture

victorkane commented

Hi Jason!

Yes, this happened to me when I installed Drupal on my development box.
If you go to Administer > Status Report you may see the same thing I saw (or something similar) about the system complaining about the lack of a GD library (without which the color picker can't work).

The solution there depends on your operating system, etc., let me know what that is and we will try to help.

You can also select the use of an alternative image toolkit (through Administer > Site Configuration > Image toolkit, if you have one installed.

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

The color picker disappears when you select "private downloads" in General settings, File system settings. This is intentional because it wouldn't work correctly. It will probably get fixed in a future version -- it needs rather big changes.

If this is your case, you can produce the color scheme in a test site with "public downloads" and then copy it.

JasonMR’s picture

JasonMR commented

Thanks Victor and CogRusty for your prompt replies, very much appreciated.

It was the "private download setting", changing brought the colour picker back.

Excellent! I could have saved myself 4 hours of work, if I had just asked...

Bright Regards
JasonMR

Duncan Pierce’s picture

Duncan Pierce commented

I had the same problem after upgrading a site from Drupal 4.7.4. Eventually I discovered the Color module in "Core - optional" section was switched off, probably because it didn't exist in Drupal 4.7. Switching it on (and verifying the conditions given in other comments here) fixed the problem.