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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Control Panel problem with custom 'wctb'.
Keywords: Color, Control Panel, no-show.
Message-ID: <13783@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 89 16:54:46 GMT
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In article <29453@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> wilson@ji.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
	(James E. Wilson) writes:
...
>The dctb resource owned by the Control Panel takes precedence over the
>system default wctb resource, and hence you get a black and white control
>panel window.  If you want a color window, you will have to delete the control
>panel's dctb resource first (or edit it for color).
>
>If you do this, though, you will find that your control panel no longer works.
>For some reason, the General cdev crashes when you mess with the default window
>colors.

     Editing the 'dctb' resource seems to have no ill effect, at least
with Control Panel 3.3.1 (System Tools 6.02) and with Control Panel
3.2 (System Tools 5.0).  Removing the resource, however, is quite
disastrous.  I conclude that one can have a colored Control Panel
window with the General cdev, because I am looking at one right now.
Perhaps the General cdev manipulates the dialog color table directly,
and thus needs the 'dctb' to be present(?).

     Thanks for the tip.


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