[comp.windows.ms] Reverse-video desktop colors for laptop?

ecc@CS.CMU.EDU (Eric Cooper) (02/06/91)

My laptop has a slide switch for "normal" or "reverse" video, and the
default Windows color scheme looks terrible under "normal", great
under "reverse".  I'd like to get the same effect in software, by
creating my own color scheme, so that when I run dumb applications,
the colors continue to look right.

I tried inverting the values corresponding to the default colors, but
couldn't get things like menu item highlighting to look right.  Has
anyone done this?

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hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu (Hans van Oostrom) (02/06/91)

In article <1991Feb5.160129.28195@cs.cmu.edu>, ecc@CS.CMU.EDU (Eric Cooper) writes...
>I tried inverting the values corresponding to the default colors, but
>couldn't get things like menu item highlighting to look right.  Has
>anyone done this?

With the control panel you cannot change all the standard colors.
There are 6 unlisted color options:
	ButtonFace
	ButtonShadow
	ButtonText
	GrayText
	Hilight
	HilightText

These you have to change in the win.ini file with eg notepad.  All 
this can also be found in the winini2.txt file in you windows 
directory.  Note that you have to restart windows for the changes to 
take effect.

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