In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> Question for Dilwyn - how do you set a colour theme in Launchpad ? >> You >> make a brief mention of it in the article, yet with no example of >> how. >> >> The Launchpad "Help" instructions also make brief mention, in part 8 >> System Settings, yet again no clear explanation - >Hmm, this does need updating. When I put the facility in, I didn't do >too good a job on the "destructions" Yes, of course, it is always the work first and the explanations later. >> "You can also set screen saver details and background colour or >> image on >> systems supporting these facilities. Play around with Colour Themes >> if >> you know about this facility and your system supports high colour". >> >> Any further illumination on this ... ? >Needs Launchpad 2.00 or later: >1) Go int the "MyQL" menu >2) Click on DISPLAY >3) When DISPLAY menu appears, click on the box tot he right of System >Palette Theme >4) File selection menu appears - find a file with extension _THM (the >Launchpad ones are in the Launchpad directory and have names starting >with THEMES and extension _THM such as >win1_launchpad_themes_gold_thm). They are exactly the same format as >Q-CoCo ones - Launchpad and QCoCo theme files should be >interchangeable as I used QCoCo to make them. Yes, I've got all that now ... thanks to Duncan and yourself. This is a very nice feature of LP that you have "tucked away" kind of unheralded ... :-( ... and you forgot to explain it in the QLToday article too ... :-) >> In addition I find that when the "gold theme", or any other is >> applied, >> from QCoCo, that Launchpad loses most of its pre-defined Application >> program icons - replaced by either a mouse pointer icon or CF9. >Haven't seen that happen on either of my systems I'm afraid. Was QCoCo >started from Launchpad, from basic command line or how? Current >Launchpad version is 2.06 (check version number in copyright menu in >Launchpad). Current version is on my website, you should have an >upgrade code to unlock the download, if not email me privately and >I'll send the code. Might be worth trying a refresh in Launchpad (hit >3rd loose item from right at the top) to see if that restores things >to normal. Another thing to try is to >apply the theme from Launchpad and see what happens that way round. My version is 2.05. I just re-tried it all, and there is something happening which is odd. I usually run Launchpad from within QDT, and then QCoCo. The same behaviour occurs. Whereas a theme set up from within Launchpad itself, as described above, works fine. Plus it also saves the theme for next regular use. So that is the preferred way to do it. As you say the "theme" is the same file. -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
