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--- docs:faq:how_to:track_custom_color [2019/12/22 21:36] – created admin
+++ docs:faq:how_to:track_custom_color [2023/08/11 13:20] (current) – admin
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-This how to assumes that you have already opened gpx or kml file in GPX Viewer which contains at least one track or route. If you haven't opened it yet here is [[docs:faq:how_to:open_file|How to open gpx or kml file]].
+This how to assumes that you have already opened a gpx or kml file in GPX Viewer which contains at least one track or route. If you haven't opened it yet here is [[docs:faq:how_to:open_file|How to open gpx or kml file]]. Please note that track/route custom colors are not saved, but cached, so if you clean **Opened files cache** in **Clear cache data** in **Miscellaneous** **Settings** these settings for track/route custom colors will be deleted.
-Below are step by step instructions how to change track/route color.
+Below are step-by-step instructions on how to change the track/route custom color. Also for this custom color to work, you need to have **Settings** - **Track/route** - **Color from file** option enabled.
   - Open **left main menu** in GPX Viewer.
-  - Tap on **Settings** button.
+  - Tap on **Track/route info** button.
-  - In Settings tap on **Track/route** button.
+  - In **Track/route info** screen tap on … button and from menu select **Set custom color**.
-  - Then scroll down and tap on **Colors**.
+  - In shown menu tap on **Set custom color**.
-  - GPX Viewer is a viewing application so there is no option to directly change track/route color you can only assign a color which will be use for first loaded track/route, second loaded track/route etc. So in this screen you can change color for first track/route, second track/route, third track/route etc. by tapping on item and then tapping on **Edit** option from the menu. Then color palette will be shown, so you can adjust color and then tap on new color.
+  - Then color palette will be shown, so you can adjust the color and then tap on a new color.
-  - Go back to the main map screen and track/route color will be changed.
+  - Go back to the main map screen and the track/route color will be changed.
-Below is video showing following instructions above:
+Below is a video showing the instructions above:
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