Advance Color lisp needed

Our firm uses color dependent plot style for our drawings, and works perfect. My problem is one of our employees is color blind (this is not a joke) and his plots always look different from the rest of us because he can't see the different layer colors displayed on the screen. It takes too long for him to go to the layer box to see what color each object is.

Now my idea of a lisp seems impossible, but I will ask anyway because you never know. I would love to have a routine that allows you to hover the cross-hairs (Aperture) over a line/object and it displays the color of the layer/object in a box next to the cross-hairs just like the osnap extension box. Also, it would be nice to be able to toggle this function on and off. Another option is to have it display the color in the coordinates box in the lower left-hand corner, and when your pointer is not on an object it would display something like "Default Background".

Is this even possible, or do I need to create a lisp to select an object to display this information? I'm asking for too much right
Any other ideas?

Thanks
Eric

 

Have you checked out ....?

http://www.manusoft.com/Software/Periscope/index.stm

 

www.bubblecad.com will show the color of the layer the object is on (or the
color of the object) when you hover your cursor over it. It has an option
to use Shift to show the "bubble" info when you want it.

Periscope is good, too, but doesn't show the layer's color, just the
object's color.

perfect. My problem is one of our employees is color blind (this is not a
joke) and his plots always look different from the rest of us because he
can't see the different layer colors displayed on the screen. It takes too
long for him to go to the layer box to see what color each object is.

never know. I would love to have a routine that allows you to hover the
cross-hairs (Aperture) over a line/object and it displays the color of the
layer/object in a box next to the cross-hairs just like the osnap extension
box. Also, it would be nice to be able to toggle this function on and off.
Another option is to have it display the color in the coordinates box in the
lower left-hand corner, and when your pointer is not on an object it would
display something like "Default Background".

to display this information? I'm asking for too much right

 

Plus BubbleCad is free compared to Periscope. Although BubbleCad can get a
little bit annoying sometimes.