I give up. Can't figure out how to change color (e.g. Address Bar)
Posted: 12.11.2020, 17:05
I yield. No idea how to actually change colors, for example of the Address Bar, selected folder in the Tree, etc. Each item in Settings has a "color/font" tab, but for the life of me I don't know how to utilize what's on that dialog. And the HELP does not provide step-by-step instructions as to HOW to actually change a color, it only provides a picture of the dialog and says "you can change these colors".
I am absolutely lost. Please give me step-by-step instructions. Interestingly I've obviously applied these color changes years ago, but I've been rolling forward the INI files from previous versions. So now that I'm trying to re-customize a default 832 INI file to get everything I previously had but redone within an 832 starting INI, I have been stumped as to how I got the color changes applied in previous versions.
So the questions are twofold:
(a) how can I determine what the customized color RGB values are in my old INI for these items, and
(b) what is the step-by-step procedure for setting a customized color in the new INI using the "color/icon" tab dialog. Actually I'm pretty sure the answer to (1) implies (2), so if I can just know how to expose the RGB values in a currently customized FCXE setup getting that same dialog in the new 832 setup would let me set the color there.
So, here is the Address Bar color dialog as pictured in HELP. It's out of date a bit, but mostly accurate. Most significantly the steel-blue color of the items shown is really exactly what I want to achieve in the new 832 Address Bar. The current default color is more of a bright baby blue that I don't like. So I've always customized it back to the older original steel-blue. But now I can't figure out how I did it, and the "color/font" dialog is really a complete mystery to me. Not intuitive, at least to me. Nothing I push seems to provide clearly labeled things to push or change.
(1) Here's the HELP for Address Bar "color/icon" settings tab, showing the actual target steel-blue color I'd like to set my 832 Address Bar to:
(2) Here's the default 832 Settings -> Address Bar -> color/icon tab, with the bright baby blue color I want to change:
(3) Here's my current color/icon tab on another machine, with the carry-forward INI file I've been using. Obviously I made the color changes sometime in the past, but I cannot for the life of me remember how I did it.
So if somebody can tell me how to find out what the old steel-blue RGB values are from my old INI, that will probably also instruct me as to where I need to get to in order to change the bright baby blue of the 832 default back to the steel-blue I want, for Address Bar and anything else I want to change color of.
For example, if I click on the "color" button, I get the following menu:
I assume I'm then supposed to change the "background start" and "background stop" RGB values, to establish the gradient properly. But when I press "background start" I get just a totally mysterious color-choice dialog, that I have no idea what to do with.
What do I do now?? I've tried going into "more colors", but the selected item and RGB values is apparentlyfor the bright baby-blue color. I look at my old color palette and the RGB values for steel-blue, and copy those RGB values into the custom color dialog window on 832. Then I push OK to apply it. But no color change occurs. Even when I close the Settings dialog and program and re-open, the Address Bar color is still the original default bright baby-blue, not the steel-blue I just OK'd.
On my old INI the "color palette" shows what I'm sure are the RGB values for steel-blue, and which I want to apply to 832. Looks like this:
And on the 832 INI the "color palette" shows the bright baby-blue RGB as follows:
I change the RGB value on the 832 dialog to match those of the old dialog and push OK, and then OK my way out. But the color change does not occur.
So how do I accomplish a color change? What am I missing? Is this a bug in 832?
Sure would be nice if the HELP provided these instructions.
I am absolutely lost. Please give me step-by-step instructions. Interestingly I've obviously applied these color changes years ago, but I've been rolling forward the INI files from previous versions. So now that I'm trying to re-customize a default 832 INI file to get everything I previously had but redone within an 832 starting INI, I have been stumped as to how I got the color changes applied in previous versions.
So the questions are twofold:
(a) how can I determine what the customized color RGB values are in my old INI for these items, and
(b) what is the step-by-step procedure for setting a customized color in the new INI using the "color/icon" tab dialog. Actually I'm pretty sure the answer to (1) implies (2), so if I can just know how to expose the RGB values in a currently customized FCXE setup getting that same dialog in the new 832 setup would let me set the color there.
So, here is the Address Bar color dialog as pictured in HELP. It's out of date a bit, but mostly accurate. Most significantly the steel-blue color of the items shown is really exactly what I want to achieve in the new 832 Address Bar. The current default color is more of a bright baby blue that I don't like. So I've always customized it back to the older original steel-blue. But now I can't figure out how I did it, and the "color/font" dialog is really a complete mystery to me. Not intuitive, at least to me. Nothing I push seems to provide clearly labeled things to push or change.
(1) Here's the HELP for Address Bar "color/icon" settings tab, showing the actual target steel-blue color I'd like to set my 832 Address Bar to:
(2) Here's the default 832 Settings -> Address Bar -> color/icon tab, with the bright baby blue color I want to change:
(3) Here's my current color/icon tab on another machine, with the carry-forward INI file I've been using. Obviously I made the color changes sometime in the past, but I cannot for the life of me remember how I did it.
So if somebody can tell me how to find out what the old steel-blue RGB values are from my old INI, that will probably also instruct me as to where I need to get to in order to change the bright baby blue of the 832 default back to the steel-blue I want, for Address Bar and anything else I want to change color of.
For example, if I click on the "color" button, I get the following menu:
I assume I'm then supposed to change the "background start" and "background stop" RGB values, to establish the gradient properly. But when I press "background start" I get just a totally mysterious color-choice dialog, that I have no idea what to do with.
What do I do now?? I've tried going into "more colors", but the selected item and RGB values is apparentlyfor the bright baby-blue color. I look at my old color palette and the RGB values for steel-blue, and copy those RGB values into the custom color dialog window on 832. Then I push OK to apply it. But no color change occurs. Even when I close the Settings dialog and program and re-open, the Address Bar color is still the original default bright baby-blue, not the steel-blue I just OK'd.
On my old INI the "color palette" shows what I'm sure are the RGB values for steel-blue, and which I want to apply to 832. Looks like this:
And on the 832 INI the "color palette" shows the bright baby-blue RGB as follows:
I change the RGB value on the 832 dialog to match those of the old dialog and push OK, and then OK my way out. But the color change does not occur.
So how do I accomplish a color change? What am I missing? Is this a bug in 832?
Sure would be nice if the HELP provided these instructions.