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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Control Panel problem with custom 'wctb'.
Keywords: Color, Control Panel, no-show.
Message-ID: <13760@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 3 Jun 89 02:48:37 GMT
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Reply-To: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Organization: Thayer School of Engineering
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I am at a loss to explain the following behavior.  The problem is to
change the default window colors on a Mac II by changing the 'wctb'
number zero resource in the System file.  I have a Mac II with an
Apple color monitor and Apple video card with the upgrade kit for 256
colors.  I generally run it in 16-color mode, set for "Color" rather
than for "Black & White/Grays."  System version is System Tools 6.02.
I replaced the 'wctb' resource in my System file with the one
described below.

derez "{systemfolder}"system types.r -only wctb
resource 'wctb' (0, "Main window color table") {
	0x0,
	0,
	{
		wContentColor, 55535, 65535, 65535,
		wFrameColor, 0, 0, 65535,
		wTextColor, 0, 15535, 0,
		wHiliteColor, 0, 0, 65535,
		wTitleBarColor, 65535, 65535, 0
	}
};

Among other things, this is supposed to give me a yellow title bar on
all my windows which have the standard title bar.  And so it does,
with the exception of the Control Panel's dialog window title bar,
which is always stubbornly white.  I tried this with a floppy copy of
the System Tools 1 disk from the 6.02 distribution, with my custom
'wctb' installed and with the same result: All title bars are yellow
when in 16-color or 256-color mode, except for the Control Panel's
which is white.  That experiment seems to eliminate the possibility of
conflict with INITs and things, since the only non-Apple thing on the
floppy startup disk is my non-standard 'wctb'.  This also happens with
System Tools 5.0.

Why?

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