todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) (12/15/90)
On one of our machines at work, it appears that someone has somehow swapped the blue and gray base colors of Windows. I have played around with just about everything I can think of in the Control Panel, but cannot switch it back. For example, in the Control Panel, you can't change the colors of the buttons from gray to anything else. However, somehow, they've ended up blue. When I copy the .ini files from a machine that had the exact same setup, the swap is still there. Apparently, this has been done on some lower level than the Control Panel. Any suggestions? -- Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ucsbcsl!ivucsb!todd ** Ask me about the August, 1991, Gold Rush mini-rallye! **
ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) (12/15/90)
In <1990Dec15.003219.2532@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes: >On one of our machines at work, it appears that someone has >somehow swapped the blue and gray base colors of Windows. I >have played around with just about everything I can think of >in the Control Panel, but cannot switch it back. For example.... >Any suggestions? Boy, is this familiar! The Control Panel is pretty hopeless, at least when it comes to editing the color scheme. What you should do is go fiddle with the initialization files by hand. One way is to edit the [Colors] section of win.ini. Copy the data from another machine, or from your backups on this machine. Or you can have mine: -----cut here----- [colors] Background=160 160 164 AppWorkspace=192 192 192 Window=0 128 128 WindowText=255 255 0 Menu=0 255 255 MenuText=0 0 0 ActiveTitle=255 255 0 InactiveTitle=130 130 130 TitleText=0 0 255 ActiveBorder=255 255 0 InactiveBorder=138 138 176 WindowFrame=128 128 128 Scrollbar=129 129 129 GrayText=100 100 100 HiLight=120 120 120 -----cut here----- Note that I've defined a couple of colors that Control Panel doesn't even know about (I found the menus too hard to read). If you really want to make the Control Panel Colors thing workable again, you'll have to fix *its* initialization file. As above, copy somebody else (or your own backup) control.ini file. Here's mine: ----cut here---- [current] color schemes=Isaac's Scheme [color schemes] Arizona=804000,FFFFFF,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,808040,C0C0C0,FFFFFF,4080FF,C0C0C0,0,818181 Bordeaux=400080,C0C0C0,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,800080,C0C0C0,FFFFFF,FF0080,C0C0C0,0,818181 Designer=7C7C3F,C0C0C0,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,808000,C0C0C0,FFFFFF,400040,C0C0C0,0,C0C0C0 Fluorescent=0,FFFFFF,FFFFFF,0,FF00,0,FF00FF,C0C0C0,0,FF80,C0C0C0,0,C0C0C0 Monochrome=C0C0C0,FFFFFF,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,0,C0C0C0,FFFFFF,808080,C0C0C0,0,818181 Ocean=808000,408000,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,804000,C1C1C1,FFFFFF,808080,FFFFFF,0,818181 Patchwork=9544BB,C1FBFA,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,FFFF80,FFFFFF,0,64B14E,FFFFFF,0,818181 Rugby=C0C0C0,80FFFF,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,800000,FFFFFF,FFFFFF,80,FFFFFF,0,818181 Pastel=C0FF82,80FFFF,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,FFFF80,FFFFFF,0,C080FF,FFFFFF,808080,818181 Wing tips=408080,C0C0C0,FFFFFF,0,FFFFFF,0,808080,FFFFFF,FFFFFF,4080,FFFFFF,0,818181 Isaac's Scheme=A4A0A0,C0C0C0,808000,FFFF,FFFF00,0,FFFF,828282,FF0000,FFFF,B08A8A,808080,818181 Dago=408080,C0C0C0,808000,FFFF,FFFF00,0,FFFF,828282,FF0000,FFFFFF,B08A8A,808080,818181 Blue Duck=A4A0A0,808000,F0CAA6,800000,FFFF00,0,FFFF,828282,FF0000,FFFF,B08A8A,808080,818181 [Custom Colors] ColorA=F058A6 ColorB=F058A6 ColorC=D4D4D4 ColorD=FFFFFF ColorE=72550E ColorF=FFFFFF ColorG=FFFFFF ColorH=FFFFFF ColorI=F058A6 ColorJ=A4A0A0 ColorK=A4A0A0 ColorL=72720E ColorM=E09149 ColorN=FFFFFF ColorO=FFFFFF ColorP=FFFFFF [Patterns] (None)=(None) Boxes=127 65 65 65 65 65 127 0 Paisley=2 7 7 2 32 80 80 32 Weave=136 84 34 69 136 21 34 81 Waffle=0 0 0 0 128 128 128 240 Tulip=0 0 84 124 124 56 146 124 Spinner=20 12 200 121 158 19 48 40 Scottie=64 192 200 120 120 72 0 0 Critters=0 80 114 32 0 5 39 2 50% Gray=170 85 170 85 170 85 170 85 Quilt=130 68 40 17 40 68 130 1 Diamonds=32 80 136 80 32 0 0 0 Thatches=248 116 34 71 143 23 34 113 Minima=1 192 128 29 28 16 4 0 ---cut here--- -- ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch netcom!ergo@apple.com Silicon Valley, CA {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo THIS STATEMENT IS VERIFIABLY, IRREFUTABLY TRUE!
risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) (12/17/90)
todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes: >On one of our machines at work, it appears that someone has >somehow swapped the blue and gray base colors of Windows. I >have played around with just about everything I can think of >in the Control Panel, but cannot switch it back. For example, >in the Control Panel, you can't change the colors of the buttons >from gray to anything else. However, somehow, they've ended up >been done on some lower level than the Control Panel. Hi! Some mischievous fellow may have modified the 'non-standard' system colors in your WIN.INI ... There are six color descriptions in the WIN.INI, that can't be modified with the Control Panel. They are documented in one of the README files that came with the Windows, though. I've listed them below with their default values: [colors] . . . Hilight=0 0 0 HilightText=255 255 255 ButtonText=0 0 0 ButtonShadow=128 128 128 ButtonFace=192 192 192 GrayText=192 192 192 So, check whether your WIN.INI contains above, but with different figures. If it does, delete them, or change to as shown. You can also change the values to whatever suits your taste; an easy way to do it is experimenting with some other system color in Control Panel, and finally copying the RGB values from that line to any of six above. On the other hand, your problem may indeed be hardware-specific, in which case I would suspect you've got a minorly incompatible VGA<->displaydriver combination in your system. Normally, the Windows modifies (if it finds that many) 20 of the system's palette entries to its own purposes. *Could be*, that only 16 colors are modified in your system, leaving four colors to their hardware defaults, one of which happens to be used for buttons. If your VGA is 'non-standard', you probably should try to find its specific driver for Windows (if the problem persisted). BTW, even with 'normal' VGA, the basic colors will be modified upon Windows start-up: For example, the VGA hardware default for bright red is usually RGB(100%,50%,50%), while Windows changes it to RGB(100%,0%,0%). The goal is to have the system colors as widely apart from each other as possible within the RGB-cube, to enhance the appearance (and probably simplify calculations) of the dithered colors. Terveisin: Risto Lankinen -- Risto Lankinen / product specialist *************************************** Nokia Data Systems, Technology Dept * 2 2 * THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK * 2 -1 is PRIME! Now working on 2 +1 * replies: risto@yj.data.nokia.fi ***************************************