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- PopColours 1.0
- November 1986
-
- PopColours lets you change the Red/Green/Blue components of any
- colour register, on any screen currently in the system.
-
- When PopColours first comes up on the WorkBench screen, it is not
- activated, and occupies only the title bar of a window so it
- doesn't take up much space. When you click on it, the window pops
- open to reveal the colour control panel. You can slide the
- proportional colour gadgets to affect the colour of the indicated
- colour register, or click in front of or behind the slider to
- increment or decrement the colour value by one. Clicking on any
- other window de-activates PopColours and "un-pops" it again.
-
- To modify a different colour register, use the up and down arrows
- on the right of the control panel. When the colour register value
- gets to the highest colour register available in the screen, it
- next goes back to zero. You can hold the arrows down and they
- will auto-repeat. when modifying the colour of the WorkBench
- screen, a square is drawn next to the colour register indicator
- in the colour that's being changed (the current colour register).
-
- The "TOP SCREEN" message is both an indicator and a gadget. It
- indicates what screen you are changing the colours of, and lets
- you select either the topmost or the second screen. For example,
- if you started a task that opened a new screen, then slid the
- screen down partially, revealing the WorkBench screen, playing
- with PopColours would change the colours of the new, top screen,
- not the WorkBench screen. This way you can modify the colours of
- just about ANY program. With your new screen in place, you can
- click on the "TOP SCREEN" message; it will switch to "SECOND
- SCREEN". This choice allows you to change the colours of a non-
- slidable screen (like TextCraft): use left-Amiga 'N' to bring the
- WorkBench screen to the front, then slide it partially down to
- see the other screen, and set PopColours to "SECOND SCREEN" mode.
- You can then muck about with the colours of a program that
- doesn't give you the option to do so. The poor program doesn't
- know what's going on! If you click on "TOP SCREEN" when there
- isn't another screen, the message (no 2nd screen)" will appear
- for an instant, and "TOP SCREEN" will re-appear. With the options
- to change either the topmost screen or the second screen from the
- top, you can arrange screens to change the colours of any screen
- currently in the system.
-
- PopColours is written by Chris Zamara and Nick Sullivan, (c) 1986
- AHA! (Acme Heuristic Applications!). It may be freely
- distributed.
-