Posted by Richard Neer on August 15, 2012 at 10:04:55:
In Reply to: Re: setting colours in a .ini file posted by steve auerbach on August 15, 2012 at 08:21:51:
My experience with that is the ini settings only affect the initially launched screens (enter password) and monitor/utility screens, but not program screens the same way unless there is no coding to deal with any color aspect in your format statements.
I built a program shell that made use of up to ten user-selectable colors for everything from foreground/background to error messages, system messages, optional prompts and selectable text highlighting. Stored each urer's selections in their respective term record in Z1, and had all programs make use of the set screen colors command "@0e0e0e@" to initialize each screen and the use change color command "@0e0e0b@" throughout formats within the program to disply text tweaked to each user's color preferences. It gave each user control and flexibility to see the screen how they wanted to. Helped tremendously with those who had color vision issues or just found some colors more irritating or tiring then others. Everyone's different.
Users never make use of CWCOLOR since it only affects the primary screen color and not the individual capabilities of having certain text in one color versus another. All CWCOLOR settings are set to Standard colors. DOS colors are same color palette, only darker I think. Windows colors only uses black, white and grey and cause TM/TP problems when combined with formats using the change color settings when one half of the color happens to one of the three, so we never use that.
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