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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: Standard Way to Specify Colors?
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Date: 8 May 91 04:28:49 GMT
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In article <917470ql@cctb.wa.com> curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson) writes:
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>You should still allow your users to assign
>any color to any object.
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This is good advice, and is in the CUA guidelines (at least the version of them
that Borland sends out with TPW).  It makes me think there's must be a standard
way to specify them - like an Options Color palette.  In fact, Borland
gives this menu entry in their sample menus in the CUA chapter.

However, the built-in tools in Windows don't all have one.  I've been dying
to change the color of cross references in Winhelp from green to something else,
but it doesn't look possible.  So are these CUA guidelines worth anything,
other than as general good advice about interfaces?

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu

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