How to stop applying thread color?

Hi all. I'm enjoying the software very much and perhaps I haven't quite figured out the workflow but it seems like the software always insists on something always being selected or active as it pertains to thread color selection. If I digitize a new shape and deselect everything, picking a color turns part of my design that color for some reason. Why can't I just digitize a shape, and then have the ability to select a new color and lay down a new shape in that color? Am I missing something or is there some hidden keyboard shortcut or hidden option that I can toggle to stop this behavior?
Thanks!

Hi,
I think you may be trying to select the colors from the wrong place. You select your digitizing colors from the thread box at the bottom. These are the available colors you have to use for digitizing.

You select the thread colors from the thread chart on the right and add them to the color box at the bottom. Then you click here to select the thread color you want to digitize next. (making sure nothing is selected).

Think about it this way:
Your Thread charts on the right are all your thread in your thread drawer or wall.
You pick the threads you want to use for that project and take them off the wall to your working area. The color box at the bottom is your working area.

I think this is what is happening and why you say colors change.

Notice the thread colors at the bottom color box is the same colors used in the designs. (1)
Also, notice the box (#7) with the black line around it. This is your selected color. Or your "currently active color".



When you click on a color in the thread chart on the right, it changes that color.
Any objects in the design will change colors.
Notice how my #7 changed and so did the objects in the design. That's because I had the #7 selected and clicked on a color (green) in the thread chart on the right and it changed that color.



To add colors to the color box at the bottom:
1. double click on any color in the thread chart on the right. It will be added to the color box at the bottom.
2. or you can click on the big "+' icon at the bottom and then left-click on a thread color and it will also be added to the bottom.

NOTE: if you just single click it will change the selected color box at the bottom to that color.

Kim, thanks for your thorough response. I think I get it now. Wasn't immediately obvious at first but like you said, I was indeed selecting from the thread list and that was causing the issue. Not sure why it wasn't obvious to me that selecting from the thread list replaces the active color I guess I was so focused on why something I purposely deselected was changing color All good now. Thanks again.