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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!cunews!nrcnet0!emr1!jagrant
- From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- Subject: help text colour in BC++ & Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.042914.4252@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <1992Sep16.042818.4073@emr1.emr.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 04:29:14 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- I have changed my Windows colours (with control panel) to CYAN text on
- DARK BLUE background. Write and Notepad correctly use CYAN on DARK BLUE
- as expected.
-
- However, when I use windows help (i.e. for Write), the background is dark
- blue as expected, but the text remains as 'black' difficult to read. Why
- doesn't Windows display the help text using the text colour I have
- selected?
-
- You say "WinHelp" is hard-coded to use black, right? Maybe not...
- Borland help correctly shows the help text as CYAN on DARK BLUE, and yet
- they are using the same Windows help engine. This looks like a bug, but
- Microsoft says "gee I dunno, why are you using such a dark colour for
- your background anyway, you weird person you".
-