mrn@eplunix.UUCP (Mark R. Nilsen) (05/30/91)
Hello MacNeters, Try this one out. I was able to duplicate it constantly. I am running vannila 7.0. My monitor is set for 16 gray levels (beautiful icons & windows). I go into the control panels and double click on labels. I then click on the coloured squares (mine are shades of gray) and the color picker dialog comes up (see IM vol. VI). At this point I notice that the shade of my montitor is munged. I pick a new color for a label and click the O-kay button. When I get back to the desktop I have the pretty gray scale windows, but all my icons are 1 bit deep. I can get my monitor looking right if I go to the monitors control and set it to black & white then back to 16 grays. --Mark. -- "To skilled assembly language | Mark Nilsen. programmers, the 8088 is perhaps the | most wonderful processor ever | mrn%eplunix.UUCP@eddie.mit.edu created, ..."-Dr Dobb's Journal, 3/91 |
stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) (06/01/91)
In article <1087@eplunix.UUCP>, mrn@eplunix.UUCP (Mark R. Nilsen) writes: > My monitor is set for 16 gray levels (beautiful icons & windows). I > go into the control panels and double click on labels. I then click > on the coloured squares (mine are shades of gray) and the color > picker dialog comes up (see IM vol. VI). At this point I notice > that the shade of my montitor is munged. I pick a new color for a > label and click the O-kay button. When I get back to the desktop I > have the pretty gray scale windows, but all my icons are 1 bit deep. > I can get my monitor looking right if I go to the monitors control > and set it to black & white then back to 16 grays. OK, I've just done some experimentation, and it definitely does it in 16 grays. It also does it in 16 *colours* and 256 grays, but *not* in 256 colours! Figure that one out... Is this such a problem though? How often will you be changing your labels? (I know, I know, there's probably people out there who change theirs every day :-) -- See ya Nigel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel Stanger, Internet: stanger@otago.ac.nz c/o University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Phone: +64 3 479-8179 Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. Fax: +64 3 479-8311 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If I had a quote, I'd be wearing it." -- Bob Dylan ----------------------------------------------------------------------
chma@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Michael Antolovich) (06/02/91)
Well it really isn't a bug, it just bugs me !!! :-) Has anyone managed
to get rid of the 'pastel' colours of the folders in 8-bit colours. I
haven't had a chance to fiddle with ResEdit yet, but I'm sure it can
be done. (Is there an option buried in the Finder somewhere that I
missed ?) All I want is full rich colour (or is that gordy ?) without
the grey bits :-)
Thanks,
Michael
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\_________________________________________________________________________/ rdw89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Williams RD) (06/04/91)
In <1087@eplunix.UUCP> mrn@eplunix.UUCP (Mark R. Nilsen) writes: >My monitor is set for 16 gray levels (beautiful icons & windows). I >go into the control panels and double click on labels. I then click >on the coloured squares (mine are shades of gray) and the color >picker dialog comes up (see IM vol. VI). At this point I notice >that the shade of my montitor is munged. I pick a new color for a >label and click the O-kay button. When I get back to the desktop I >have the pretty gray scale windows, but all my icons are 1 bit deep. >I can get my monitor looking right if I go to the monitors control >and set it to black & white then back to 16 grays. Yes, as I wrote a few days ago it seems that if you select colour things when in greyscale, system 7 gets into trouble. Note it doesn't happen when you have `grey' or B/W selected (obviously!). So what's happened? Why aren't colour and greyscale treated similarly?