On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 21:00:11 -0400, I wrote: > There have been comments in the past on this list re: text or background > changing color temporarily while Arachne is pulling up her socks.
> I have never had this problem in a way that was bothersome. I may have > seen some flashes of wrong color but that's all. Now, on two boxes both > using Matrox millenium II vga accelerators in VESA mpde and using A1.62 > on one with A1.66 on the other,(P90 and P200) I get the white text of a > mail message or the mail index changing to aqua for about two seconds > while something else is loading, and more obvious, a grey background > of Arachne chat or even my Hotlist turns to pink for SEVERAL seconds > sometimes. :(( Further info for anyone else experiencing this problem - so we might track it down - I have determined that the color shift appears and the duration coincides with the display of the green "gas-o-meter" progress indicator for "Loading page from disk" and _maybe_ "Creating Virtual Screen". I have no idea yet why this color shift only occurs 10-20% of the times that the "gauge" is on the screen, except for the remote possibility that maybe it only happens when the "info" Arachne is loading is no longer in the external HD cache - or it has expired from the Arachne cache.:( > I have NOT changed DOSs on these boxs. BTW, when I saved this message a few seconds ago, the compose screen border (usually silver) turned to aqua for the duration of the save and then obviously disappeared when Arachne went to the screen I was on before selecting "Reply". I was only in the "Compose" mode for a couple of minutes. Hmmm. Did it again after I saved the above addition, but THIS time the color shift was NOT co-incident with the save, but for a shorter period equal to the time it took Arachne to re-create the "Outbox" screen. And ditto. Yup againagain. Maybe I was wrong in the BTW above. But I don't think so ... At least I _temporarily_ have a way of re-creating the effect. <g> - Clarence Verge - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
