Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GS System Software Complaint Message-ID: <9105250122.AA27138@apple.com> Date: 25 May 91 01:08:09 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 54 On Fri, 24 May 91 11:16:08 GMT Charles Vangsgard said: >In-Reply-To: message from dlyons@Apple.COM > >Perhaps the black on white complaint comes from someone who is accustomed >to using a PC. We like the familiar. If someone handed me a news paper >which was interely black with white lettering I would say ICKY! Would we >want to watch our TV sets with a black background and white lettering? It >is no wonder the PC and Mac users are so different, they consider the other >side to be using INVERSE VIDEO. hehehe... Actually, I'm used to white text on black backgrounds for being around Apple II's for so long. When the GS came out with the desktop, I couldn't stand it (I couldn't stand the -desktop-, not talking abut the GS). But you're right. It seems like inverse video to me. I remember, LONG before the GS came out, I patched DOS 3.3 to print in inverse (black text on a white background) and thought it was the most god-awful thing I'd ever seen. When the GS came out with that exact same thing, I was really amazed that some one would actually make an operating system like that. It's just the WORST I could possibly imagine .... well, I guess a puke greenish-brown background with pail-green text COULD be worse....:) As for the newspaper & T.V... I'd rather read white text with a black back- ground on T.V. and I've actually thought about this before, but I think that black paper with white text would look really cool, but when you're talking about reflective light (light reflecting off paper) and additive light (light emitting from a picture tube) it always looks best for additive to have light text and dark background (for me). I can't express how much I hate the white background. It's just utterly disgusting. ------------------- By the way... about that GUIMaster... Someone e-mailed it to me (thanks, by the way), It crashes when I select the NDA from the finder. I wrote my own 'module', but I can't figure out how to keep it from using those home-made radio dials, scroll bars, etc... They look really bad in 320 mode. Also, I can't figure out how to make white text with a black background. The documentation just says, it's in the toolbox reference. It would be EXTREMELY nice if we have an 'official' CDEV from Apple that we could rely on and use easily. Not everyone has APW or ORCA (which is required for GUImaster. Don't get me wrong about GUImaster though... it's pretty nice, just a little buggy and pretty hard to use, AND I really appreciate it being e-mailed to me. >---- >ProLine: charlie@pro-mansion >Internet: charlie@pro-mansion >UUCP: crash!pro-mansion!charlie >ARPA: crash!pro-mansion!charlie@nosc.mil ---------------------------------------- BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com