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Re: Making the Finder Black...

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From: Greggy
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1989 23:07
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In article <gYn7QXy00WB7IMRHAh@andrew.cmu.edu> aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam 
C. Duncan) writes:
> ...I want to write a hack that will
> allow me to change the windows in the Finder to Black.
> That is I want to be able to have Black windows with white
> type. Icons on Black etc.. I would also like to have the
> chooser window to be white on Black. ...

Try this:
Write a patch to NewWindow or OpenPort or InitPort (I don't know which) 
that sets the foreground color to white and the background to black (just 
the opposite of normal).
Make it only affect windows when curAppName is 'Finder'.

Who knows, maybe this'll work... :-)

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