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- From: gdl1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.D. Landweber)
- Subject: Re: kolor
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.151157.25822@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Summary: try Colorize, Greg's Buttons
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:11:57 GMT
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- This is a response to a post about using Kolor 2.0 with System 7.
-
- When Apple designed those fancy 3-d shaded windows and scroll bars
- (with those cute color tinges selected in the color control panel)
- for System 7, they changed the way the system stores its coloring
- information. I believe that the "Kolor" control panel was designed
- to work with the old System 6 color information. As a result, even
- if you could get Kolor to work with System 7, you'd revert to the
- old System 6 style monochrome windows (except those windows would
- now be drawn in the colors you specified).
-
- Another utility to colorize windows/menus/etc. is a shareware program
- called Colorize. I don't think it's on SUMEX, but I think you might
- find it on mac.archive.umich.edu. It lets you colorize each application
- individually, which makes sense considering that some applications don't
- like it when their windows are colorized (for instance, the Finder
- insists on erasing things to white). Colorize suffers from the same
- problem as Kolor in that it uses the System 6 color information.
-
- If you want to colorize your menus, dialog boxes, and Finder windows,
- you could try out my shareware ($10) control panel, "Greg's Buttons".
- It doesn't disturb the System 7 color information, and it gets around
- the problem I mentioned above about coloring the windows in the Finder.
- Yes, this is a shameless plug, so I won't waste any more bandwidth...
-
- -- Greg (of the Buttons)
-