I've been a user of SD for many years and have got fully accustomed to its
colour scheme in
which logged QSOs are shown in yellow on a green-ish (teal?) background, with
other
colours as shown in the screenshot on the first page of the SD manual and also
in the main
screen and the logging line of the screen as shown on the website. However...
I've just replaced my previous Windows 7 'shack' PC with a new machine running
WIndows
10, and when I use the RESET command to restore the default colours I find that
the colour
scheme is not particularly to my liking. Furthermore, I don't seem to be able
to select the
colours so that the appearance reverts to what I've become used to on the
previous Windows
7 PC (and all its predecessors way back to Windows 98 or perhaps 95 and
probably even
DOS!). I'm using the same monitor with the new Windows 10 PC as I was with the
previous
Windows 7 machine so nothing has changed on that front.
Is there any way to select a different colour palette that will give me the
old-style colour
scheme when running SD under Windows 10, or is the available colour palette
governed by
the selected Windows 10 'theme'? In its infinite wisdom Microsoft appears to
have got rid of
the ability to use the 'classic' Window appearance theme in Windows 10 - grrrr!
An alternative suggestion for Paul to consider would be to allow the entry of
hex numbers for
each of SD's nine or ten colour selection options (windows background, logged
QSOs,
logging line etc etc), as is implemented in certain other amateur radio apps
(eg. WSJT-X).
An example of a colour code in WSJT-X is #46ff5f, which is the colour I use to
show my
callsign in a message. Allowing the entry of a hex colour code for each option
would give
almost unlimited flexibility in the selection of the colour for each of the
options in SD and
would enable a user to customise entirely the SD app's colour scheme to suit
their individual
preferences and requirements rather than restricting them to selecting one of
the limited
range of 16 colours as at present.
--
73, Martin G0HDB
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