Geoff Wicks wrote: >> Hi Dilwyn, >> >> Just Words! are strictly house style so use GD2 colours, but not >> system >> palette, >> >> Best Wishes, >> >> Geoff
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > Same with S_Edit (famous last words...;-)) > > Cheers...Ralf Thanks Geoff, Ralf, Per and everyone else who took the time to reply. I'll include the information in the article and send it off to Toady later today. I've put a simple basic program and a small collection of colour themes onto the GD2 page on my website www.dilwyn.uk6.net/gd2/index.html for people to play around with them. You can get some more, including a nice one based on Tron colours from Wolfgang Uhlig's website. Quite simply, all you need to do is pick the theme file you want and either LRUN or EX the little SBASIC program supplied to apply the theme - from your boot program all you need is a line like EX flp1_theme_bas;'flp1_grey_thm' QDOS users can use colour themes if they have pointer environment/window manager version 2, although you have to lrun the program, not EX it. And QDOS is limited to 4 colours. For those like Geoff who like to have their own 'house style' it might be possible to do an own system palette IIRC, but I don't really remember without digging out all the Marcel and Wolfgang info. But whether System Palettes are used or not, it's nice that quite a few authors are using the new colours one way or another. It might sound like I'm obsessive about System Palettes, but I really find it nice when most of my programs follow the same sort of colour theme and being able to apply a different theme when the mood takes me and have these programs all change colours to suit is something I've got used to on a certain other operating system and it's great being able to do the same sort of thing on QL systems too. Tools like Easyptr make it so easy to write programs to do this, in fact when you set up a menu in Easyptr version 4, it actually defaults to System Palette entries on my system, so if I want a particular hard coded colour I have to go out of my way to do it! One reason why my new programs work in this way... Sadly, it's a big job to rewrite an older program, so I don't expect many older programs to change, although Marcel has "hacked" a few like Qascade. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.2/393 - Release Date: 19/07/2006 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
