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[MUG] How to set foreground/background colors?
| [MUG] How to set foreground/background colors? |
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Author: James Frye
Posted: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:11:51 -0800
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>> From: James Frye />
Hi,
I'm completely new to Maple, and am having a great deal of trouble getting
it set up so that I can work with it. The problem is that I need large,
high-contrast text, in white (or other easily-visible color) on a BLACK
background. I can't figure out how to get this: there are no options on
the menus, I can find nothing in the help that seems relevant, and none
of the other users or the system people here know.
Is it just so obvious that no one ever bothered to document it? I mean
most programs seem to be smart enough to automatically pick up the user's
settings from the OS, but Maple just presents me with a glaring white
screen and tiny little text.
I'm using Maple 8 as a remote application hosted on the university's
system (using Citrix), and displaying on a Win 2K machine. Is the remote
display the problem? Would it work if I simply went and bought a copy for
myself? I don't mind spending the money if it will work, but not just to
discover that it doesn't, you know?
Thanks,
James
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| [MUG] Re: How to set foreground/background colors? |
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Author: Dr Francis J Wright
Posted: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:35:08 -0000
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>> From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" />
From: "James Frye" />
To: />
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:11 PM
Subject: [MUG] How to set foreground/background colors?
> I'm completely new to Maple, and am having a great deal of trouble getting
> it set up so that I can work with it. The problem is that I need large,
> high-contrast text, in white (or other easily-visible color) on a BLACK
> background. I can't figure out how to get this: there are no options on
> the menus, I can find nothing in the help that seems relevant, and none
> of the other users or the system people here know.
>
> Is it just so obvious that no one ever bothered to document it? I mean
> most programs seem to be smart enough to automatically pick up the user's
> settings from the OS, but Maple just presents me with a glaring white
> screen and tiny little text.
>
> I'm using Maple 8 as a remote application hosted on the university's
> system (using Citrix), and displaying on a Win 2K machine. Is the remote
> display the problem? Would it work if I simply went and bought a copy for
> myself? I don't mind spending the money if it will work, but not just to
> discover that it doesn't, you know?
On a Windows XP Home stand-alone system the following works for Maple 8.
It's mainly
a question of configuring Windows rather than Maple.
Open the Windows Display Properties dialogue, e.g. right click on the
desktop. Select the Appearance tab and then the Advanced button. From the
Item drop-down menu select Window and then select the colour to be Black.
Then select the Font colour to be White.
The main Maple 8 window respects this colour scheme, but the Maple
Format/Styles...
dialogue box doesn't and so is unusable. But, in principle and when using
the default colour scheme, one can change most of the attributes of the text
styles used by Maple and/or create new styles. So this should provide
further control over the text used by Maple.
Whether this is possible on Win 2K and/or Citrix I can't say.
Francis
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