| How to Create your own DragThing Colour Sets.
This edit allows you to save your custom color sets in a DragThing Colour Set file. You can include the set with your K-Scheme, or simply protect them against accidental deletion.
How is this edit different than using the "Save" button in the Preferences? If you use DragThing's Save option to export your ColorSets, you get all 16 colors, icons, and templates for a file size over 9k. If you save the colors using this edit, the file size is less than 400 bites.
Launch DragThing 2.6 if it isn't already running. From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
My goal was to create a color set to match the Kaleidoscope "Hand of God" scheme.
With the K-Scheme active, I replaced the colors in the first default set with ones I selected from the K-Scheme using the eye-dropper tool. I then renamed the color set to "Hand of God".
When you're happy with the colors, quit DragThing.
 In the System Folder -->Preferences Folder, find the DragThing Preferences and open them in ResEdit.
Find the Docc resources and open them with a double-click.
 If you followed the example above, your first Docc ID should be named "Hand of God".
Select it with a single click and copy it to the clipboard.
 From the File menu, select New File and name it "Hand of God".
Select Paste to insert the Docc resource from the clipboard.
If the DragThing Preference file is still open, open the "Hand of God" Docc resource ID 128 with a double-click. (you need the Preference file open because it contains the Docc template.)
While you don't have to make any changes to the Docc resource, I thought you would like to see how the colors are laid out.
Once you are done looking at the Docc, close the window.
 From the File menu, Get Info on the "Hand of God"
Change the Type/Creator codes to Docc/Dock.
Save the file and quit ResEdit.
You have now created a stand-alone Colour Set file for DragThing! If you inadvertantly reset the application colors to their defaults, you can always import the saved color set.
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