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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: New "Style Guide" menus question.
Message-ID: <22626@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 15:00:30 GMT
References: <3412@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3412@shodha.enet.dec.com> ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes:
>In the new _Amiga User Interface Style Guide_ in the chapter on menus
>under the heading "Color," it says that menus should be in dark text on
>a light background, and then goes on to say that the examples in the
>book are *not* this way because the version of Release 2 used for the
>examples was not capable of doing it.
>
>Is this actually correct?  All previous versions of the system used
>light text on a dark background (like the examples in the book,) and
>2.03 version running on the 3000 at the local dealer is the same.  Is
>this changed in 2.04?  Is the new style guide wrong?


The dark menus only appeared in 2.0;  in 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 we
had menus with a white background.  And we liked them.

For 2.0 we swapped the dark and light pens used by the system;
one side effect was that suddenly we had white text on dark
menus.

Perhaps in a future revision of Intuition, if the menu system
is revamped, we can go back to dark text on a light background
for menus, as =RJ= intended.

>-hans
		andy
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