Colour drop-down errors.

[Jarvis]

This one is for Norman really, but advice from others is welcome.

I am using Actinic Developer Lite V7.0.6.
I installed the patch "Displaying Colours in Choice Drop-Downs" earlier today from Drillpine.

Excellent patch and there appeared to be no problems, the site working ok.

However, when I later went in to work on a product that did not require the "Colour" dropdown I got an "Invalid Character" message.
The file was P_Index.html
Following this through, I identified the invalid character to be every occurrence of the "£".

The website itself works ok.

It is just the small preview or wide preview window in Actinic developer Lite itself that has a problem.

Do you have any suggestions please?

[NormanRouxel]

Have you an URL of a live faulty page so I can see what's happening?

[Jarvis]

The site itself is ok.
For reference the site is:
http://www.renown1886.co.uk/acatalog...Shirts_20.html
The first shirt has the colour dropdown and this is fine.

The error occurs ONLY in the small preview or wide preview window in Actinic developer Lite itself.

I have restored my backup copies of ACT_Primary etc and the problem goes away.
Of course, I can no longer use the colour dropdowns.
(I haven't republished yet, therefore you can still see the dropdown version above).

I tried using ACT_Primary and ACT_PrimaryColour but it still caused problems.
It can't therefore be code in ACT_Primary or optioncoloursupport.js
It must be something in the mod versions of:
VariantListHeader
VariantListChoice
VariantListFooter

Thanks for the prompt reply by the way.
j

[NormanRouxel]

You're using an old version of that patch. I've rewritten it to be much more elegant and to generate far less code.

I'd recommend getting the current one from www.drillpine.biz/actinicstuff

This also switches the underlying text to white if you choose a very dark colour (so you can see the word "Black" against a black background).

[Jarvis]

Thanks.

Many Thanks Norman.
As always, a prompt and effective solution.
j

[Jarvis]

I want to use the same Colour Coded dropdown in version 8.
Given that the original solution required a patch to ACTPrimary and that V8 works completely differently, is there a similar solution?