rad@mbunix.mitre.org (Dick Dramstad) (12/31/90)
Ever since I converted to A/UX 2.0 back in October, I've had strange palette changes where the background color (and sometimes other portions of the pallete, as well) of my Mac windows would change, usually to red but other colors as well, when I would be "mousing around" the lower right hand corner of my screen. At first, I thought it was some specific application that caused the problem (TeachText was an early favorite suspect), but today I finally realized it happened *whenever* the point of my mouse cursor moved into the last line down in the bottom right hand corner (e.g., with MacX, with Finder, CommandShell, etc.). I have a Mac IIfx with an Apple Ethernet card, a SuperMac 19" monitor, and the Spectrum 8 video card. (The card has the newer ROM that actually allows A/UX to boot...) Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is it Supermac Spectrum 8 specific? Any idea what might be causing the problem. It doesn't seem to cause any crashes (I just reset my palette by bringing up the Color Control Panel color wheel), but it is annoying. Thanks in advance for any ideas, Dick Dramstad
brownrigg@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (01/09/91)
In article <127497@linus.mitre.org>, rad@mbunix.mitre.org (Dick Dramstad) writes: > Ever since I converted to A/UX 2.0 back in October, I've had > strange palette changes where the background color... [stuff deleted] I unfortunately have no answers to Mr. Dramstad's questions, but as a point of observation.... I have an app. originally written under MacOS, that, I thought, conformed to 32-bit quickdraw guidelines for "nice" programs. It runs, setting the palatte for its needs, and upon termination the system resets the palatte to the default for me. Under A/UX 2.0, this reset doesn't happen, leaving the palatte in usually a less than desirable state. (Curiously enough, the same thing used to happen whenever I launched the app. under the MPW 3.1 shell -- any connection?). On the topic of color, I posted a while back asking about color and commandShell windows...is there anyway to obtain something other than black on white? Signed, addicted to color. Rick Brownrigg Kansas Geological Survey