hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (05/24/89)
Larry Baum (lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP) asks: >I find it a bit cumbersome that to switch from Color (256 Grays) to >Black & White (2 grays) I have to bring up the control panel, choose Monitors, >then click two different buttons and close the control panel. Does anyone know of >a simple INIT, DA or FKEY that will toggle back and forth between the 2 via a >simple keyclick or other one-step action. The Switch-A-Roo FKEY will toggle you between two color settings. In particular, you can set it up to toggle two 2-color and 256-color mode. As I remember, it was written by someone at Apple, but distributed through the usual PD software channels. Kurt W. Hirchert hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu National Center for Supercomputing Applications
newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server) (05/25/89)
In article <46100303@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >Larry Baum (lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP) asks: >The Switch-A-Roo FKEY will toggle you between two color settings. In >particular, you can set it up to toggle two 2-color and 256-color mode. >As I remember, it was written by someone at Apple, but distributed through the >usual PD software channels. The Switch-A-Roo FKEY is now part of Screen Gems, a commercial utility package. The old version was SW or PD; I don't think there are any differences (except for the copyright) between the PD/SW version and the commercial one. Screen Gems is a nice package of color utilities. Dimmer is the best screen dimmer for the Mac II. ColorDesk lets you have any PICT on the desktop. -- Roland Mansson, Lund University Computing Center, Box 783, S220 07 Lund, Sweden Phone: +46-46107436 Fax: +46-46138225 Bitnet: roland_m@seldc52 Internet: roland_m@ldc.lu.se or roland_m%ldc.lu.se@uunet.uu.net UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!enea!ldc.lu.se!roland_m AppleLink: SW0022
lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum) (05/26/89)
>I asked: >I find it a bit cumbersome that to switch from Color (256 Grays) to >Black & White (2 grays) I have to bring up the control panel, choose Monitors, >then click two different buttons and close the control panel. Does anyone know of >a simple INIT, DA or FKEY that will toggle back and forth between the 2 via a >simple keyclick or other one-step action. > Thanks to all who told me about Switcheroo. Please, no more responses! -- Larry Baum Advanced Technology Center Boeing Computer Services uucp: uw-beaver!bcsaic!lbaum (206) 865-3232 internet: lbaum@atc.boeing.com
gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (05/26/89)
Well, get the earlier version of Switch-A-Roo, and I quote:
Switch-A-Roo is a FREE fkey design to
quickly toggle all your monitors
between any two modes. Select a video
board from the Switch A box, and then
select any mode from the Switch B box.....
The free version is available on SUMEX:
<info-mac>fkey>switch-a-roo12.hqx
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
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