[kepler-dev] background color

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, this has been bugging me too.  Lets change the background back
to the white background that we designed for the Kepler UI.  Anyone
know who made this UI change?  Can you change it back please?

Matt

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Christopher Brooks<cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hi Norbert,
> In Ptolemy, drag in a LocalPreferences attribute from Utilities.
> Then set the Background color.
>
> It appears that Kepler does not have LocalPreferences in the list
> of attributes, so I did Tools->Instantiate Attribute and then
> entered ptolemy.actor.gui.PtolemyPreferences
>
> When I hacked in the -printPDF facility, I added some code that
> sets the background, see for example
> ptolemy.actor.gui.ConfigurationApplication.
>
> The place where PtolemyPreferences is used to set the background is in
> ptolemy.vergil.basic.BasicGraphFrame
>
> _Christopher
>
> Podhorszki, Norbert wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Where can I set the GUI's background back to white?
>> After years of making nice screenshots for (white bg) papers and slides, I
>> just cannot stand the current gray background.
>>
>> There is a gray background color defined in
>>  gui/src/org/kepler/gui/frame/KeplerGraphTableau.java
>> but that seems to control only some empty areas and the toolbox.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Norbert
>>
>>  Norbert Podhorszki
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