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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Command-key equivalent colors, take 2 (crack!)
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Date: 13 Apr 89 17:13:16 GMT
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In article <752@cord.UUCP> nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) writes:
>Well, I am becoming convinced that all of my posts are going into the
>bit-bucket, because I haven't gotten any kind of response for weeks.
>Please, if you are outside the state of NJ (and especially if you're on the
>left-coast) send me mail indicating you've seen this.

How about a follow up ?

> You know the inverse "A" that appears in menus to the left of the command-key
> equivalents?  Well, I have been unsuccessful in exerting any control over the
> colors in which it's rendered.  I have menus which for certain reasons are
> being rendered with color 0 as the background, and unfortunately Intuition
> seems to think that the "A" should have color 0 as foreground and color 1 as
> background.  This comes out looking really sh*tty.  I also have the same 
> problem with the checkmark.

Yup, this is the problem, and nope you can't _easily_ fix it. Intuition
conveniently brings out access to the checkmark but no such luck on the 
command key image. The work around is pretty brutal, use an image structure
and create a separate menu item right next to your text item. You can make
the text selection box overlap the image "menu item" and that should insure
that your text menu gets selected when you highlight it. I believe there
is an ordering problem but I'll have to check my EZMenus code to refresh
my memory.

> If the answer to all of this is "no", then I would be inclined to call this 
> a bug in Intuition and file a real bug report if necessary.  Why doesn't 
> Intuition use the standard pen colors when rendering the "A" and the 
> checkmark?  It seems hardwired to colors 1 and 0, and it shouldn't be.

Please file a bug/rfe. Then at least you know that they know that you know 
its a bug, ya know?

--Chuck McManis
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