Re: Colors (or lack thereof) in Forms45

In article <4nauh9$djk_001_at_nuts.nwu.edu> you write:
>Anybody had any experience with working out reasonable color palettes in
>Forms45? Of the 256 colors we're offered, only half display properly in
>Display and Text items. What is even MORE annoying is that display item
>colors that looked fine in Forms 4.0 now take on a lovely shade of gray-brown.
>
>Is this being fixed anytime soon? If I ask for r25g50b50 in a text item, I'd
>like to see r25g50b50 rather than gray64.

I believe it is due to your monitor resolution and the display settings in Windows. I've been told that a monitor/display card with more memory can display all the colors at the higher resolution, but I haven't checked it out.

I have seen the ugly, drab colors when I set my monitor display to 1024x768x256, while all the colors display at 600x800x64k. You might try changing your settings to see if that makes a difference.

To change monitor settings, go to Main/Windows Setup/Options/Change System Settings/Display. BEWARE: If you select the wrong one, you will not be able to start windows. If this happens, then from DOS, run Setup from the C:\windows directory, and change the display setting back to the original value.

Hope this helps.
Steve Cosner <stevec_at_csufresno.edu> Fresno, California, USA Received on Wed May 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST