The Pipette is a handy tool for picking colors in the scene. While the tool is opened, the cursor of the scene will be changed to a crosshair and the color under the hotspot is shown in the dialog (both as color square and hex string). By holding down the ALT key on the keyboard, the color currently being displayed is frozen, so the mousecursor can be moved out of the scene.

Additionally, the pipette provides the functionality of viewing a color, that is submitted as a hexstring and getting the hexstring for a color selected via the colorpicker.

The pipette is a resource intensive tool and should be closed for performance reasons, while the scene is edited.