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From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Subject: Re: Teflon Colors  (was Re: Apple's incompatibility with itself)
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.053857.18535@news.media.mit.edu>
Summary: RestoreCLUT fkey
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 05:38:57 GMT

In article <11024@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell) writes:
[original attribution lost]
>>On this subject: is anyone else irritated by the fact that many
>>apps that use colour mess up each other's colours? Finder, ResEdit 2.1
>>and MacX spring to mind. I wouldn't mind so much if the background app
>>was messed up and was OK when it moved to the foreground, but sometimes
>>things stay mashed (for example, yesterday, the delicate shade of grey
>>in window borders became a delicate shade of purplish brown in all
>>applications).

I have a nifty fkey called RestoreCLUT which, when invoked, reloads the system
CLUT and refreshes the screen.  This works great when quitting/switching from
apps that aren't smart about this.

It works fine for me under System 7.

I thought it was at sumex, but if not, I'll email the author and see if he'd
mind my posting it.

--Mike
