Order of colors as edited and displayed in palettes is the same.

I was trying to pick out a specific section of a pattern and was having problems, so I thought I would try a test.

order of colors as entered in COPASO top to bottom was

1. one
2. two
3. three
4. four
5. five

DISPLAY order in the pattern page is
5. five
3. three
4. four
2. two
1. one

I've noticed that too. For a recent pattern I made, I really wanted the color names read in a specific order. But the order they were in in the pattern-maker was not the same order in which they were published.

I've also done pattern series's that rotated the order of the colors in the pattern, but the published order was the same on each one.

I'll add more documentation to the same problem. The example below was meant to have the two color names match the pattern name, with white at the end, but they came out exactly backwards.

The impression I get is that pattern colors are literally published on a pattern screen in the order they were ever published-- i.e., if you have pre-existing colors in your pattern, they'll appear at the top, so it has less to do with how you use them and more to do with when they were registered in the system.

What's that? I used five preexisting colors. This is not a problem in palettes. The order they are entered is the order that they appear.

Pattern color order is scrambled.

I didn't have a problem with this pattern. The order of the colors in the edit and display pages of the pattern is the same as the order of the palette referenced in the pattern.



Are there layers built up for the patterns? The order of the layers may differ for some.

The order in this plaid is
4
3
1
2
5

The order of colors in any pattern can be different, it seems. The published order will probably be the same for any set that uses this same pattern.

Colors in this pattern are in the same order as added.

It wasn't necessarily a bug, but I changed it to display the colors as they are pulled from the DB [there were ordered by the date they were created, ascending].

will see what happens...

hmmm. it did fix that angled stripe pattern at the top of this thread, and the ornate half circle pattern didn't seem to get any worse. I think you may be on to something. That doesn't mean that I understand it.