Re: Messing with the colour palette

Greetings "Jonny Johansson&quot; < jjn%40telia.com">jjntelia.com>
On 01/09/2007 at 23:32 you wrote concerning
Re: [PageStreamSupport] Re: Messing with the colour palette

JJ>&gt; You used the term 'ghosted'. That's not relevant to PageStream's display.
JJ>> Simply that everything is displayed in various tones of grey (gray ???) and
JJ&gt;> hence active buttons require careful visual examination to detect that they
JJ&gt;> are active.

JJ> Ah - well, with VisualPrefs (at least), you can set different pens for
JJ&gt; active windows and inactive ones (not just the title bar fill), so that you
JJ&gt; may have the inactive ones stand out less. This is what I was referring to.
JJ&gt; (the edit palette being inactive, while you are working in any other window)

If I am following you, the distinction here between active windows and inactive
ones is quite satisfactory, especially after my recent tweaking session in
Sys:Prefs/GUI.

It is the backgrounds of those small buttons that I would like to be able to
control better. Not sure if they are 'gadgets' or something else. Anyway I've
not yet found the 'right' pen to adjust at this point.

JJ&gt;> LATER:
JJ>> Went into 'Sys:Prefs/GUI' and in the 'Subsystem' area selected 'Colors'.
JJ>>; Then highlighted the entry

JJ>> Pens = Shine Description = Generic bright edges

JJ> Hmm, shine and shadow should, for maximum contrast, be white and black,

Maybe that's how they 'should' be set but the default settings were simply
not as effective compared to my latest tweak.

JJ> respectively, with halfshine and halfshadow some shades in between those
JJ> extremes and the button "foreground"; colour, making for nice soft frames.

Well ..... I should certainly do something in order to achieve "nice soft
frames" ) but I'll live with the current 'glare' because some of the details
are so much easier to decipher.

JJ> There may also be a bunch of options (there are in VisualPrefs)
JJ> that say things like "use only halfshine for bright edges"; and suchlike,
JJ> that you could untick...

There are a huge number of options in Sys:Prefs/GUI but mamy of the
'descriptions' are not very apparent (to me) until you try them out.

JJ> There may also be a selection of ways to draw active buttons - the
JJ&gt; old normal one being a simple reversal of shine and shadow, so that
JJ&gt; the button looks recessed instead of raised.

Well ..... with the current settings, one can, upon careful examination, "sort
of" distinguish between 'raised' and 'recessed' buttions, but one can surely do
better than what is observed here. One of these days I'll stumble across a
better selection of options.

<<snip>;>
JJ&gt; That 65×55 sounds like it refers to some nasty old TV-set, with
JJ&gt; its tall pixels.

I've reset the DPI settings to 72x72 and will try that for a while.

Cheers Don (Green Dragon)
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