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- COLORBOX lets you set your dialog boxes to any
- color you want. This makes your dialog boxes more
- colorful -- and sets them off from the main window.
-
- You CAN'T do the same thing from the Windows
- Control Panel. Whatever you set there for WINDOW
- TEXT and WINDOW BACKGROUND holds both for your
- main window and for your dialog boxes.
-
- To color your dialog boxes, you have to leave
- COLORBOX running. Besides coloring your boxes, it
- will also center them on the screen. It only has
- an effect on "standard" dialog boxes (ones with a
- classname of "#32770"). It will leave alone
- nonstandard ones -- which often have fancy color
- schemes (e.g. grey patterns) of their own.
-
- If you want COLORBOX to run automatically when
- you start Windows, drag it to your StartUp group.
- If you want it to start hidden, add a "HIDE"
- command-line parameter; your Program Manager command
- line might then read "C:\JUNK\COLORBOX HIDE."
-
- I wrote COLORBOX in Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5
- (source code included). It has one bug that I know
- about. If you have two dialog boxes open at the same
- time when you close COLORBOX, your system may crash.
- The solution is easy: close your dialog boxes before
- you close COLORBOX. You would probably do this anyway.
- Normally you just leave COLORBOX running.
-
- COLORBOX is a freeware and requires Windows 3.1
- or above.
-
- COLORBOX was written by Harry Gensler, Philosophy
- Department, Loyola University, 6525 North Sheridan,
- Chicago, IL 60626.