Category : Utilities for DOS and Windows Machines
Archive   : FM56.ZIP
Filename : FMCOLOR.DOC

FormatMaster Color Configuration

FormatMaster supports complete program color configuration via a color
selection dialog box. Users with color systems will see the color
selection box as shown below:

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º º
º Group Item Ú Foreground ¿ º
º Main FM Dialog  Frame Passive  ³ ³ º
º Other Windows þ Frame/Background þ ³ ³ º
º Help Window ± Frame icons ± ³ ³ º
º ± Scroll bar page ± ³ ³ º
º ± Scroll bar icons ± ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ º
º ± Static text ± Ú Background ¿ º
º ± Label normal ± ³ ³ º
º ± Label selected ± ³ ³ º
º ± Label shortcut ± ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ º
º ± Button normal ± Text Text Text º
º  Button default  Text Text Text º
º º
º OK Ü Cancel Ü º
º ßßßßßßßß ßßßßßßßß º
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Users with monochrome systems will see the mono selection box:

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º º
º Group Item Ú Color ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ º
º Main FM Dialog  Frame Passive  ³ ( ) Normal ³ º
º Other Windows þ Frame/Background þ ³ ( ) Highlight ³ º
º Help Window ± Frame icons ± ³ ( ) Underline ³ º
º ± Scroll bar page ± ³ ( ) Inverse ³ º
º ± Scroll bar icons ± ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ º
º ± Static text ± º
º ± Label normal ± º
º ± Label selected ± º
º ± Label shortcut ± º
º ± Button normal ± Text Text Text º
º  Button default  Text Text Text º
º º
º OK Ü Cancel Ü º
º ßßßßßßßß ßßßßßßßß º
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The main dialog box contains two list boxes named Group and Item. The
items in the Item list will be a function of which Group is selected.

The following is an explanatory list of the items for the main dialog
window

Frame inactive frame color when window is not active
Bckgnd/Frame Sel background and frame color when window is active
Frame icons frame symbol color
Slider bar vertical and horizontal scroll bar color
Slider symbol vertical and horizontal scroll symbol color
Static text normal window text color
Label normal cluster or control label color
Label selected color when label is active
Label shortcut shortcut character color
Button normal normal push-button color
Button default color when push-button is default
Button selected color when push-button is selected
Button disabled color when push-button is disabled
Button shortcut button label shortcut character color
Button shadow button shadow color
Cluster normal normal cluster color
Cluster selected cluster color when selected
Cluster shortcut cluster label shortcut
Input normal input edit field normal color
Input selected input edit field color when selected
Input arrow history down arrow color
History button history button color
History sides history arrow side color
History bar page history bar page color
History bar icons histor bar symbol color
List normal select (file) list color
Active cursor cursor bar color when window active
Inactive cursor cursor bar color when window not active
Divider Zoom list divider color
File Attr Set Color for files with a non-zero attribute

Like all FM dialog boxes, movement around the box is effected with the
mouse or via the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The Tab key moves in order
through the main control clusters and the Shift+Tab key moves in
reverse order. Cursor movement inside a cluster is accomplished via
the Arrow keys and other keyboard cursor pad keys.

Changing colors is accompished by selecting Group item and then
selecting an item from the Item list. The foreground and background
colors of the "Text Text Text" lines will change as a guide as you
change the item's colors by setting the foreground and background
boxes.

When the colors of a Group have been set, you may check the visual
effet of the new colors by pressing the "OK" button (or Enter key) to
leave the color select dialog. Then select the window or dialog box
of the window whose colors were just changed.

The current color set may be saved to a disk file at any time. The
program color set will be saved to a file named FMCOLOR.SET, which
will be placed in the directory from which FM was launched. FM
will look for the file named FMCOLOR.SET when executed and load it if
found. You may also load the file from any directory and this permits
changing the color set when desired by keeping different color set
files in different directories.

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