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Re: InterViews 3.1Beta & Monochrome displays

#556
From: Mark Linton
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:20
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In article <1992Aug27.133218.8211@sco.COM>, larryp@sco.COM (Larry Philps) writes:
|> I have just started to play around with InterViews 3.1Beta, and have a
|> question that I hope somebody can help me with.  The "Motif" and
|> "OpenLook" GUI objects look fine on colour displays, but the shading
|> algorithm seems to fail on my Monochrome NCD Xterminal.
|> 
|> For example, in ifc, the scroll bars are all but useless because the
|> shading makes most of the "features" (like the arrow heads in the motif
|> GUI) invisible.  I have fooled around with explicity setting of fg, bg
|> and flat to all the possible permutations of white and black, and have
|> not been able to get fully visible objects.  The -monochrome flag also
|> does not seem to help matters.
|> 
|> Is this a known problem?  Am I doing something obviously wrong?

The monochrome kit was removed in 3.1-beta.  It will appear in 3.1
(thanks to Jason Baietto).
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