2
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store additional color schemes that you can swap
with the
active schemes. For example:
Swap inactive color scheme for active one.
SET
COLOR OF SCHEME 2 TO
SCHEME
15 &&
change
scheme 2
<commands
that use scheme 2>
SET
COLOR OF SCHEME
2
TO
&& restore old scheme 2
You can also use
COLOR OF
SCHEME
=
to
set
color schemes in
Config.fp. Use
SCHEME()
to get a
scheme’s color
pair list.
Color Set
There
are 24 color
schemes in a color
“set.”
Color sets
are
named
and
saved in the
FOXUSER.DBF
resource file. When FoxPro starts up, it loads the color set named
DEFAULT
unless
another
set
name is chosen
during
install or specified with
COLOR
SET
=
<set name> in Config.fp. You can
also
load a new color set with the
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SET COLOR SET
command
after FoxPro is running.
Color sets also save
and
restore the setting of
SET BLINK,
which can double the
number
of colors available on
BOA
and
VGA
systems.
Usage
The easiest
and
most portable way to
use
the FoxPro color system is to select colors
visually and
interactively from the Color dialog which is available from the System menu Window pulidown. Once you have chosen appropriate color settings for
all
your application’s objects, save them to a named color set
and
put
COLOR SET
=
in your Config.fp file.
You should
account
for all possible environments on which your application will run. That could require three color sets: one for real color, one for a color card, driving a monochrome
graphics
monitor (as found in many laptops), and one for real monochrome. For example:
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By
always
using color scheme numbers
and
color set names in your programs, you can easily change the colors of all objects in an application by defining a new scheme or set.
This
eliminates all literal color
pair
definitions from your code
and
prevents having to
modify the code
to change the display. These
commandsrely
on predefined schemes and sets,
and
make
programs
portable:
SET COLOR OF
SCHEME
<number>
TO
SCHEME
<number>
SET COLOR
SET TO
<color set name>
These commands change the color
pair list within
a currently active color scheme,
and make programs
not portable:
SET COLOR OF
<object part>
TO
<color pair>
SET COLOR OF SCHEME
<number>
TO
<color
pair list>
SET
COLOR TO
<color
pair list>
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The
items
affected by each Qf
the
ten color pairs in a
single
color scheme
are listed
in the following table.
PAIR AFFECTED
ITEM
1
Text, output, disabled menu bars and pads, Report Band B
2 Current field, input, enabled menu bars
and
pads
3 Border
______
4 Active object
titles
5
Inactive object titles, menu
messages
6 Selected objects,
text,
menu bars
and
pads
7 Hot
keys,
clock, current
BROWSE
record,
REPORT
empty
Band
A
8 Shadow
9 Enabled dialog and
pop-up
controls,
REPORT
Band A
10 Disabled dialog
and
pop-up controls,
REPORT
empty Band B
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Specify
default color
set in Config.fp..
COLOR Set
=
Real color
Put this
code
at the begrnrnng of
your
start-up program.
Syntax :
Do < your
program>
[WmI
<Ccolorsetñamc
Notes
Assumes
Real_color is set in Config.fp.
Resets to Real_mono
if
using a monochrome card.
Pass
name of alternate
color set
to overnde.
Passing the
alternate color set is necessary
to detect when a color
card is driving
a
monochrome graphics monitor
PARAMETERS
new colset && overrides default
DO CASE
SET COLOR SET TO Real mono
ENDCASE
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