Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!pogo!jonh From: jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Teflon Colors (was Re: Apple's incompatibility with itself) Message-ID: <11024@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 6 Jun 91 23:14:28 GMT References: <15355@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <3!whzbb@rpi.edu> <1991Jun6.180820.14114@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun6.211643.5064@neon.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR. Lines: 29 >On this subject: is anyone else irritated by the fact that many >apps that use colour mess up each other's colours? Finder, ResEdit 2.1 >and MacX spring to mind. I wouldn't mind so much if the background app >was messed up and was OK when it moved to the foreground, but sometimes >things stay mashed (for example, yesterday, the delicate shade of grey >in window borders became a delicate shade of purplish brown in all >applications). This bugs me too. I love playing with MandelZot in 256 glorious colors, so I don't mind so much when it's displaying that the background looks odd. However, when I switch forward to finder, the colors stay mapped this way. Finder thinks it has only got a few to work with, so until I quit MandelZot, I'm stuck with 1-bit icons and dull menubars. There's no good reason for this, since I really don't care if my Mandelbrot window (or PhotoShop window, or whatever) looks funky when I'm not paying attention to it. To add insult to injury, MandelZot HIDES its window when it's not in the foreground, so the system is saving precious palette slots for an application that's not even using them at the moment! Grr. Haven't tried leaving MandelZot with "Hide MandelZot" in the application menu, but the point is this reallocation of palettes should happen automagically. --Jon "trying to get accused of being a whiner and using quoted middle names like people from a.f.u." Howell -- _____ ___ _ _ Jon Howell: jonh@pogo.wv.tek.com | My life's quest is to |_ _| / _ \ | \ | | 6417 Sorrel | find a computer to call for a _| | | |_| | | \ \ | West Linn, OR 97068 | UUCP login (mail & news) that's |___| \___/ |_| \_| 503/657-7964 | local to 503/657- or 206/756-