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From: macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Colour icon highlighting: SunDesk vs. System 7
Message-ID: <15815@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 20 Sep 90 22:44:27 GMT
References: <3165@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <3165@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> goz@vm.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Goz Lyv) writes:
>I really like the way SunDesk displays selected colour icons: all the colours
>are made darker so that the icon is a darker version of its normal self.

>From what I've seen of the icl8 colour icon editor in ResEdit 2, System
>7 will invert all the colours of a selected colour icon with the result
>that the selected icon looks like a photographic negative.  It would be nice
>if Apple dimmed the colours instead of reversing them.

>Does anyone know if System 7 does indeed reverse the colours?

Indeed it does... not sure if i'm happy with that either...



 
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