At 2:40 AM +0100 7-01-00, Scott Johnson (WA) wrote:
>Has anybody (at Palm or outside) written a utility to let you customize the
>system color scheme in 3.5? This would let you do powerful customizations
>like have purple buttons and orange menus. :-) It seems like such a thing
>should come with the OS (as a prefs panel) but p.16 of the color API manual
>suggests that Palm Computing isn't going to include it themselves, at least
>not "officially."
Palm is definitely not including this 'officially' -- we all wanted to
write one though. :-)
>Now Palm guys, certainly you must have at least a crude tool for this so you
>could do the dev work on the color scheme in the first place. Any chance of
>posting it unsupportedly on DevZone?
There is a crude tool. It's called ResEdit. That's what I used to define
the 'debug' and 'release' color schemes anyway.
I've seen some other (nicer) tools that people outside of Palm are working
on, but I'll have to let them comment.
>(I'm preparing a demo where I want my controls to have somewhat better
>contrast than white-on-white, so I wrote a tiny app to just munge the scheme
>with green buttons (etc) but an actual editor with a real user interface
>would be way better.)
White on white? Yeah, that would suck, I can see why you don't want it. :-)
--Bob
