Aha. As I now understand it, these .lcs files are provided as "starting points" which can also allow users to edit their skins as freely as possible. And changing or overwriting any or all of these .lcs files will never affect the user from merely clicking the DEFAULT button to return to the original install state. Somehow, I was thinking that the "original.lcs" file was the default setting but as I found out, changing and overwriting that original.lcs file still allows a user to bail-out of everything by clicking on the DEFAULT button and return back to the install state.
OK, nice idea. Besides providing skins, Legacy allows editing of the skins and the provision to save those edits. Something I never realized but then I always liked the default settings just fine. :-) Brian in California -----Original Message----- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Saving Personal Settings if you don't click on the "Save" in the lower right corner after you've created your own Color Scheme, then you won't be able to get it back if you try something different. Some people like to vary their interface. If you edit one of the Color Schemes that's already there (click on Load to access them) and save with a different file name, you won't overwrite the existing Color Scheme. As always, if you use the same file name for the Color Scheme, you'll overwrite the one supplied by Legacy. I wish more programs would allow editing of their skins! I have one program that I like a color choice to a point and wish I could edit it a bit! Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected]> wrote: > But clicking on the SAVE button is not necessary to implement the change. > That particular SAVE button is only to create or modify a color scheme that > you may wish to recall at a future time. If a user makes a change on the > color screen, he can then click on CLOSE, and then the main customization > window comes back up where the user can click on SAVE the customization > settings which would include any of the previously made color changes without > affecting the .lcs files. > > If the SAVE button on the Color Change window is NOT clicked, the color > changes are still stored in the Legacy.usr file. All of the original .lcs > files remain unchanged. A user can re-install Legacy and get back all of > their color changes by using the previously saved Legacy.usr file. > > Now, back to that particular SAVE button on the color change window. If the > user clicks that, they can save all their color settings in one color scheme > file or surprisingly, modify one of the original .lcs files. I always thought > this was a bit dangerous to allow the user to modify an original color scheme > file until I noticed another button, DEFAULT. As a test, I modified one of > the original .lcs files by SAVING it, overwriting the original. But then by > clicking DEFAULT, I was able to get all the colors to return to their > original settings. So apparently the default settings are NOT stored in the > .lcs files. > > But then back to my original observation, if the color settings are also > stored in the Legacy.usr file, why bother with a user created .lcs file? > Aren't they redundant? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
