Configuring XCALC – Colours page
There are 11 different colours mapped to the various screen elements. These are:
- Background: the general background colour ();
- Border: the colour of the raised border elements;
- Bright 3D edge: lines showing a 3D element's raising edge;
- Dark 3D edge: lines showing a 3D element's dropping edge;
- Button text: text colour for buttons; also indicates empty
memory locations, and the text colour for memory popup display;
- button text: text colour for disabled buttons;
- Selected button: colour of selected button top; also indicates used memory locations;
- Message: text colour for messages (bottom left);
- Caption: colour of caption circle top left;
- Keycap text: text colour for onscreen keyboard;
- Digits: main digits colour.
There are also 16 predefined colours for XCALC – these can be changed in the Colour Common Dialogue box (option 2 below).
Changing colours:
To change a colour, you first select an item with a radio button on the left.
The RGB values and test element on the right are updated to show the current colour.
There are three ways to select a new colour:
- Click on one of the predefined colours;
or
- Press the Choose colour… button to use the common Colour Dialogue box to select a colour or set the predefined colours;
or
- Type in the red, green and blue intensities by hand.
Finally, press the Set button to update the item's colour. The minimalist XCALC display shows the results.
If you screw it up completely, the Set defaults button will always restore all XCALC colour defaults.
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