Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/08/17:36:08.1
On 2001-01-04 Joe Da Silva wrote:
> WRT colours, yes(!) that stark white (inspired by Windoze?) is
> terrible, particularly if your video card is crappy and flickers and
> has no DOS drivers to "bump up" the refresh rate [...]
Totally agreed.
> [...] you will have a choice
> of about eight different colour schemes. None of them are all
> that pretty, but they are mostly much better than stark white!
> It is even possible to modify these colour schemes and add
> one or two of your own [...]
Here are two of my examples for user defined color schemes.
They resemble the blue colors of the Borland IDE or the green
colors of the NDOS (Norton´s OEMs issue of 4DOS) command
shell and will significantly reduce the flickering.
ColorSet8 = "BlueMP" (14,1)(15,8)(15,1)(15,4)(0,1)(0,7) ...
... (15,3)(3,7)(4,7)(15,1)(10,1)(12,1)(2,15)
ColorSet9 = "GreenMP" (0,2)(15,7)(15,8)(15,4)(0,2)(0,7) ...
... (15,0)(8,7)(4,7)(14,2)(6,2)(15,2)(2,15)
If you want one of them to become the global default color set, add
them to the [COLORS] section in the %DRDOSCFG%\DRDOS.INI file
(%OPENDOSCFG%\OPENDOS.INI/%NWDOSCFG%\NWDOS.INI)
and change the MaxColors=10 and CurrentColor=8 directives
accordingly. (Somewhat odd, if a file of this name does not exist,
NET.EXE looks for a file named COLORS.INI in the directory
specified by %DRDOSCFG% (%OPENDOSCFG%/%NWDOSCFG%),
while LOCK.EXE looks for a file with fixed path C:\DRDOS\DOS.INI
(C:\OPENDOS\DOS.INI/C:\NWDOS\DOS.INI)).
For those experiencing screen flicker and no refresh rate tool in reach,
or with an incompatible VGA cards (like some of the Cirrus cards),
I recomment to change the NewUI=On to Off.
This will disable the graphically animated user interface and
re-enable a plain text mode appearance. Since DR-OpenDOS 7.02+
(10/1997) this will no longer disable the graphically animated
mouse pointer (except for the mouse pointer in SETUP/INSTALL,
which is still bound to NewUI=On|Off). The appearance of the
mouse can now be controlled independently of NewUI=On|Off by
using the new SmoothMouse=On|Off directive, because some
applications (for example the TechWay Chinese Character System)
have problems with the smooth mouse cursor. (SmoothMouse=
is checked by DISKOPT, DOSBOOK, EDIT, FILELINK,
INSTALL/SETUP and UNDELETE, but not by SECURITY.OVL
and NET.EXE.).
If you want to use different color schemes with different tools
(e.g. the DOSBOOK should look like the NDOS help system,
and EDIT like the Borland IDE editor), just place the CurrentColor=
directives in separate groups named after the corresponding file,
e.g. [DISKOPT], [DOSBOOK], [UNDELETE], [FILELINK].
There´s one exception: The group name for EDIT.EXE is named
[EDITOR].
Many more color scheme details and info on the other directives
can be found in chapter II.19. (and other locations) in the
NWDOSTIP.TXT file (part of MPDOSTIP.ZIP, which is
available for free on my web-site - see footer for the link).
Enjoy,
Matthias
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