>>> 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. I've had a look and there are slightly better instructions for colour themes than I thought in section 4 or the Launchpad manual (launch2_txt or launch2_doc). I may have only changed it in version 2.06.
>>> 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. Looking back through history_txt the only relevant change documented there is in v2.02 and v2.03 I introduced user-defined sprites for program icons, and I also made a change which prevented a demo version launched from within a full version of Launchpad mutually killing each other due to a clash caused by restrictions in the demo version. None of those (in theory) could cause the problem you described, more likely is the fact that each version of Launchpad seems to have used a different version of the Easyptr extensions, there may be something there - if time permits this weekend I'll see if I can rebuild it using the latest Easyptr extensions to see if that achieves anything. > 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 ... :-) I use Launchpad every day myself (Jim hasn't managed to convert me to QDT *yet*), so I tend to take these things for granted (it was written to be what I wanted of such a program). People have seen me demo it at workshops and remarked they didn't know this or that useful facility was in there, probably inevitable that in a big program like this some features may be less obvious than others. I was actually pretty amazed that it it got generally a good press. I just sort of kept adding bits to it at other people's suggestion (Quicklaunch was one of those, as was the shortcut icons at the top in version 2) and found I used them myself all the time. I've still got a copy of the first released version and it seems so primitive compared to the current version. Although Page Designer 2 holds a special place in my heart (my first big QL program), I think Launchpad is probably the one I'm most proud of to date. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
