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From: geoffs@gssc.UUCP (Geoff Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 1024x768 colors problem
Message-ID: <6396@gssc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 90 15:44:39 GMT
References: <11180@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Graphic Software Systems, Inc. Beaverton, Or.
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In article <11180@spool.cs.wisc.edu> thaler@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) writes:
|I have recently upgraded my video card to a STB with 1Meg of memory and
|it came with a 1024x768x256 driver for WIN3.0. All is great but for one
|small problem. 
|I hate the way the selection bar on pulldown menus looks! I have gone
|into the COLORS program of the control pannel and set EVERY possible
|setting to black or white (just to eliminate the possiblity of my
|missing a setting) and the selection bar is still a light cyan with
|white letters which is difficult to read. I am using a Sony HG monitor
|in non-interlaced mode and it looks fine except for the tiny type.
|
|So the question is, is there a way to change the color of this selection
|bar, and is this flaw also for other 1024 drivers like the 8514a?

Well, the color that highlights text in the menus is determined by values
which are hard-compiled into the display driver executable. There is no way
(that I know of) to alter this RGB value from within Windows -- it would take
a new display driver!

This is only a problem (and that is subjective too) in display drivers
which utilize the 8514/a resources. For example, the Windows 3.0 display
drivers for the DGIS product which my company markets is a high res display
driver which DOES NOT use the offensive highlight colors you mention. Instead,
we decided to keep the highlight colors similar to VGA (ie: black highlight,
white text).

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