[SD-User] Windows 10 colors
Sandro I7ALE
sandro_i7ale at alice.it
Tue Nov 17 07:17:38 EST 2020
I am maybe lucky, but on the two notebooks running Windows 10 here (one 5 years old and the other one month old) SD is showing the Institutional colors without any problems.
73 to all
Sandro, i7ALE
Today's Topics:
1. SD colours on Windows 10 (Martin Davies G0HDB)
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 23:21:55 -0000
From: "Martin Davies G0HDB" <marting0hdb at gmail.com>
To: sd-user at contesting.com
Subject: [SD-User] SD colours on Windows 10
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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.
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73, Martin G0HDB
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