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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.
See also