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From: rdw89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Williams RD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Changing Label Colour Bug
Keywords: Bug Label
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Date: 4 Jun 91 12:39:00 GMT
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In <1087@eplunix.UUCP> mrn@eplunix.UUCP (Mark R. Nilsen) writes:

>My monitor is set for 16 gray levels (beautiful icons & windows).  I
>go into the control panels and double click on labels.  I then click
>on the coloured squares (mine are shades of gray) and the color
>picker dialog comes up (see IM vol. VI).  At this point I notice
>that the shade of my montitor is munged.  I pick a new color for a
>label and click the O-kay button.  When I get back to the desktop I
>have the pretty gray scale windows, but all my icons are 1 bit deep.
>I can get my monitor looking right if I go to the monitors control
>and set it to black & white then back to 16 grays.

Yes, as I wrote a few days ago it seems that if you select colour
things when in greyscale, system 7 gets into trouble.  Note it doesn't
happen when you have `grey' or B/W selected (obviously!).  So what's
happened?  Why aren't colour and greyscale treated similarly?