Re: Background Colors in The Format Menu
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg42857] Re: [mg42821] Background Colors in The Format Menu
- From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:31:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
David, It might be useful as well to add the following colors used by the 5.0 HelpBrowser style sheet (and perhaps you can think of better names): Item["HelpBrowser Sand", Background -> RGBColor[0.964706, 0.929412, 0.839216]], Item["HelpBrowser Straw", Background -> RGBColor[0.960784, 0.878431, 0.666667]], Item["SlideShow Slate", Background -> RGBColor[0.408011, 0.440726, 0.8]], And while we're at it, how about some better text colors? The last 3 of these come from the Macintosh "crayon" palette: Item["HelpBrowser Brick", FontColor -> RGBColor[0.592157, 0.313726, 0.313726]], Item["Mocha", FontColor -> RGBColor[0.501961, 0.25098, 0]], Item["Ocean", FontColor -> RGBColor[0, 0.25098, 0.501961]], Item["Eggplant", FontColor -> RGBColor[0.25098, 0, 0.501961]], (BTW: Thank you WRI for the excellent redesign of the Help Browser style sheet!) ----- Selwyn Hollis http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 04:07 AM, David Park wrote: > Dear MathGroup, > > I have always disliked the choice of background colors in the Format > menu. I > think they are generally too dark, too saturated, or too dull. While > it is > possible to choose Other and then use the color selector to set the > color, I > observe that most people stay with the main choices. If you would like > some > pastel colors to use as cell backgrounds, paste the following code in > the > > SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\Windows\MenuSetup.tr file. > > (I suppose it is in some other place on other operating systems.) > > First copy and save the MenuSetup.tr under a different name so that > you can > recover if necessary. > > Then open MenuSetup.tr, scroll down and replace the Menu["Back&ground > Color",...] > section with the following code. > > Menu["Back&ground Color", > { > Item["&Cell Gray Box", "ToggleGrayBox"], > Delimiter, > Item["&None", Background->None], > Item["Inherite&d", Background->Inherited], > Delimiter, > Item["L&inen", Background->RGBColor[0.980,0.941,0.902]], > Item["A&liceBlue", Background->RGBColor[0.941,0.973,1.0]], > Item["Min&tCream", Background->RGBColor[0.961,1.0,0.980]], > Item["Lig&htYellow", Background->RGBColor[1.0,1.0,0.878]], > Item["Smok&e", Background->RGBColor[0.961,0.961,0.961]], > Item["Mi&styRose", Background->RGBColor[1.0,0.894,0.882]], > Delimiter, > Item["Blac&k", Background->GrayLevel[0]], > Item["&White", Background->GrayLevel[1]], > Item["&10% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.1]], > Item["&33% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.3333333]], > Item["&50% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.5]], > Item["&66% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.6666666]], > Item["&90% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.9]], > Item["&Red", Background->RGBColor[1, 0, 0]], > Item["&Green", Background->RGBColor[0, 1, 0]], > Item["&Blue", Background->RGBColor[0, 0, 1]], > Item["C&yan", Background->RGBColor[0, 1, 1]], > Item["&Magenta", Background->RGBColor[1, 0, 1]], > Item["Yello&w", Background->RGBColor[1, 1, 0]], > Delimiter, > Item["&Other...", "BackgroundDialog"] > }] > > Then when you restart Mathematica you will have a better choice of > background colors. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > >