Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: window information bars (changing color of apple)
Message-ID: <52938@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 May 91 23:22:41 GMT
References: <3558@kluge.fiu.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <3558@kluge.fiu.edu> acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:
>i finished putting a menubar inside my window and would like to know how to
>change the color of the apple. chances are i can't get the multi-color apple
>but a color besides the default (which i think is purple or the like) would
>be nice.
>
>albert

As Dave already said, the Apple menu symbol is always drawn in color #1, and
the Menu Manager changes color #1 at the top of the screen so the Apple logo
looks correct.

However, this can mask a more subtle problem -- there really should be only
one Apple menu per desktop.  It's a special menu, and I've seen people really
really confused by WriteIt!, which has the Apple menu in the DA window.  They
wanted to know what the difference was between the two menus, and why was one
one color, and what happened to DAs they opened with the WriteIt! menu when
they closed WriteIt!, and why they needed two of them.

The answer to the last one is "You don't need two of them."  CK just put it
in to see if it was possible, and he left it in because he didn't want to
take it out.  CK describes himself as having the human-interface savvy of
a defense department manual, and will happily point out that you should _not)_
follow his lead on human interface matters.

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