Hi list, Super long time member, haven't posted in years. It's been over 10 years since I first joined, way back in the pre-Google groups days, when the Compact and Vintage Mac lists were still separate.... Still see some familiar names here, which is nice.
I was going to post this to the System 6 List, but I checked my Sys6 List folder and there hasn't been a new message there in almost 2 years! Either I got unsubscribed somehow, or that list is as good as dead. So I'll post here... Anyway, I've been playing around with a neat little System extension called ColorFinder that was created to give the System 6 Finder the ability to display color icons the exact same way System 7 does. It's really pretty cool, and works really well, with one big, giant caveat: it ONLY works in 256 color mode. If you're set to thousands, or millions, it doesn't display any icons at all. Just the file or folder name, and an empty white square. If you click on the white square where the icon should be, it still selects the icon properly and you'll even get an inverted version of what the icon should look like (also proper operation). But when unselected, icons are just.... missing. It took me quite a while to figure out they showed up properly in 256 color mode as I operate almost exclusively in "thousands" mode. I can't for the life of me figure out why this is, but I figure it has to be something super simple and relatively easy to fix, almost like the extension was programmed by someone who only had a 256 color video card and didn't program it to detect higher bitrates properly (either because they didn't exist at the time or he didn't have access to a computer that supported them). It seems fixing it should be as easy as tweaking a couple of bits somewhere, but I'm really at a loss. I'd really like to use this, but it's useless to me in its current form since the ONLY time I'll step down to 256 color mode is to play an old game that requires it. Anyone else out there use this that might be able to offer any hints on where to look to fix this? Thanks list, Nat -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
