Kolor Written by Russ Wetmore Version 1.0 ‹ 13 July 1987 Copyright İ 1987 by Apple Computer, Inc. Distributed with permission, not to be sold! What is Kolor? Kolor is a program for Macintosh II owners. It allows you to change the default colors associated with: € Controls (buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, and scroll bars) € Windows € Menus € Hiliting (most notably used for text hiliting) Kolor is used in conjunction with the Control Panel. It creates resources which are used by the various Managers as default color tables if an application hasnıt supplied them. As of this writing, very few programs written for the Macintosh ³colorize² their own resources, thus allowing you to customize your system to suit your tastes. How do I use Kolor? All you have to do is drag the Kolor icon into the System Folder of the disk you boot from. (You must put the icon directly in the folder, not in a folder inside the System Folder.) Then, the next time you open the Control Panel, the Kolor icon will appear in the scrolling list. Select the Kolor icon to choose your personalized colors.  Color boxes (or their accompanying labels) are what youıll click on to change an individual color. When you select a color to change, the pertinent portions of the picture will flash to show you what youıre about to change. (If you hold down the mouse button, the picture will continue to flash in case you want to get a better look at whatıs going on.) The text hiliting area: This color is what TextEdit will use to hilite text, as well as the color some programs like the Finder use to hilite objects. You click anywhere in the picture to change the hilite color. If you make changes you donıt like, you can always change things back to the way they were before you started editing by clicking in this button. A little experimenting will teach you how a color change affects a resource. The change isnıt always as obvious as it might seem at first glance. Color tables are only used with these resources if the screen those resources are displayed on is currently showing 16 or more colors. For this reason, Kolor will only allow you to edit colors if your screen is in such a mode (that is, showing 16 or more colors.) (If you are lucky enough to have multiple screens, you can continue if any screen is showing 16 or more colors.) If you get an alert stating that you canıt go on, you can select the Monitors icon in the Control Panel scrolling list to change the number of colors displayed. See your owners manual if you need more information. Once youıve selected a color, the associated color and areas of the associated picture will change to show you what youıve done. If youıve selected a truly horrible color, donıt panic! You can always click in the Revert button to undo all changes youıve currently made. When does the System start using my new colors? The System file is only updated if you do one of the following two things: € Exit Kolor by clicking on another icon in the Control Panel scrolling list, or € Close the Control Panel. Until the System file is updated, your new colors are only known to the Kolor application. Remember: you can always choose to click in the Revert button to undo any changes that youıve made. Once youıve finalized your color selections, the screen will be refreshed to reflect your new choices. If you canıt see your changes right away, donıt panic. Chances are that the application youıre currently running has its own color tables, and thus ignores the system defaults which youıve been editing. Yuk! In spite of my better instincts, Iıve created some truly horrible colors! What do I do? Donıt fret. If you hold down the Option key while you select the Kolor icon in the Control Panel scrolling list, the various colors will all be reset to their ³factory defaults². Once youıve done this, just close the Control Panel and all will be right with the world again. I have more than one monitor hooked up to my Macintosh II. Is there anything special I should know? As a matter of fact, yes, there is. Since most people with multiple monitors use them in different screen depths (technical-ese for ³how many colors a screen will produce²) colored resources will appear differently on different screens. You may wish to call the color picker on different screens, in order to choose your colors in their proper context - that is, on the screen on which they will appear. Kolor will bring up the Color Picker on the screen which contains the upper-left hand corner of the Control Panel. Note: just because you can choose a color in the Color Picker, don't expect Color Quickdraw to display it in that exact color on your screen. Color Quickdraw always tries to ³best match² a desired color to the colors it has available, but sometimes a color is not available and a ³best match² yields an unexpected result. (For example, a very light cyan, in 16 color mode, will probably be displayed as white, since this would be the ³closest² color in its color tables. Your chances for an exact match are much closer in a mode with 256 or more colors.) What, precisely, are the legal ramifications of my using this product, passing it to friends, attempting to sell copies of it for profit, etc., etc.? Well, okay, so you didnıt ask. But I need to say it anyway, so here goesŠ Iım an employee of Apple Computer, Inc. (hereafter referred to as ŒAppleı). Theyıve given me permission to distribute Kolor and its accompanying documentation, and for this permission I am most thankful. There is no charge for distributing Kolor , and you should feel free to pass it to whomever you desire. You can post Kolor on any electronic bulletin board system where a separate charge would not be incurred for downloading it. Kolor is owned by Apple, which is the sole owner and purveyor of rights regarding its licensing and distribution. You may not sell Kolor as part of a package, whether or not a profit is derived from its distribution. Apple reserves the right to change Kolor , its documentation, or its method of distribution at any time, for whatever reason it sees fit. If you use this program, you do so at your own risk. In other words, you donıt own this program, so donıt try to act like you do; and you recognize that nobodyıs perfect, and that to err is human (and nobodyıs fault). Simple as that. Enjoy! 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