Changing Text Colour By Character Not Possible With Text Eyedropper

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2018-03-06 21:26:53

(Pixelmator Pro 1.0.8 on macOS 10.13.3 on a MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015))

I was doing some lettering earlier, taking the colour of each letter in a text object from an already existing image that I was using as a swatch. I've put a simulation of what I was doing in an image below. I'm having trouble with Pixelmator Pro's text eyedropper (2).

If I select a letter and click on the colour patch (1) the colour of the letter changes as I would expect.
If I select a letter and click on Pixelmator Pro's text eyedropper (2) the colour of the whole text changes instead of the letter as I was expecting.
If I select a letter and click on Apple's eyedropper (3) the colour of the letter changes as I would expect (so I can use this as a workaround).
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2018-03-07 09:47:29

I think here, the problem is that focus switches from the selected text to the text layer when the Type tool eyedropper becomes active, which, in theory, probably shouldn't happen. In any case, we'll obviously take a closer look at this.