Steve,
Perhaps you could obtain your desired results through a combination of
things. For instance, you could combine the use of color changes with the
use of fonts to show the active tab. Say Bold for active, standard font for
inactive.
Might help to even out LCD differences for viewing angles while still
keeping the color changes for normal viewing.
--Alan
<SNIP>
> The thing we've found tricky, on a development level, is color choices.
> In modifying our Athlete's Diary application, I wanted to color-code the
> three tabs to use a dark-red to indicate the active tab and a paler red
> to indicate the inactive tabs. On POSE, everything is great, but on an
> actual unit, the differences (between the dark and light red) are visible
> from some angles and completely disappear from other viewing angles, with
> very slight changes in angle producing fairly major changes in color
> differentiation. And this is a hardware-based phenomenon (of course),
> which means that some other PalmOS licensee might offer a unit for sale
> with different color characteristics. This means to me that either you
> have to let the user select the color for every visual element in your
> interface (NOT a pleasant thought), or you may need to tweak the app for
> every new color screen that appears, or you simply have to drop back to
> some kind of "lowest common denominator" (a.k.a. LCD). Of course,
> determining that LCD when there is only one color device currently on the
> market will be tricky to say they least.
</SNIP>
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