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Re: IIfx difference from the IIx? white on black becomes black on grey

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From: Boyd Ostroff
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 21:24
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In article <43074@apple.Apple.COM> jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.) writes:
>  The only functional differnce I noteiced was in highlighting of
>selected items.  Both in the finder and in Excel dialogs (like number
>format selection, but not in general cell selection) instead of being
>inverse video (white on black) as it was on my IIx, its now black on dark
>grey.

Well, I have no idea of why this behaves differently, but it *should* be
easy to fix.  Just go to the "color" item in the control panel.  This
lets you select the highlight color for editable text.  If you can't do
this, perhaps the color cdev is missing from your system folder.

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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
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Subject: Re: IIfx difference from the IIx?  white on black becomes black on grey
Keywords: IIfx quick draw
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.212440.27274@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 18 Jul 90 21:24:40 GMT
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Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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