Unable to use rgba colors in swatches

[kriscarle]

As of 2.14.0, swatches will only accept hex values, while previously it worked with any valid value recognized by TinyColor including rbga. This appears to be introduced by #461

My app uses transparency by default and I want the palette to appear the same as what is the user sees after the selection.

Would it work to switch components without a manual hex input back to just tinycolor(color).isValid()?

[casesandberg]

Ah, that makes sense. Mind putting up a PR that reverts that change?

[glenselle]

We're hitting this issue too. We'd love to have a transparent option in our UI but the change event won't fire. If the change in #461 is reverted the current logic will cause the bug in #432 to resurface. It sounds like the solution is to support hex8 which would allow for an alpha value per the comment here #432 (comment) by @elvisvoer

@kriscarle You mentioned working on a PR -- were you planning to add hex8 support?

As long as supporting hex8 is not a massive change I'd be willing to work on a PR for this.

[tamias]

I've also just encountered this issue. I wanted to pass 'transparent' as a color to the Swatches component; the swatch is correctly rendered as a checkerboard, but the change event doesn't fire.

Should passing 'transparent' work, and if so, what arguments should be passed to the change event?