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Palette Editor:

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The Palette editor lets you change the colours of the Workbench.

The left side of the Palette Preferences editor window displays the four and eight current Workbench colours in the selection gadget, a colour wheel with intensity indicator, and colour sliders that can be RGB (red, green, blue) or HSB (hue, saturation, brightness) depending on your Slider colour Model menu selection. (RGB is the default setting.)

The right side of the Palette Preferences editor window has a Colour Mode cycle gadget with two settings:

Multicolor Settings and 4 Colour Settings. The Multicolour Settings gadget is for setting eight Workbench colours.

The 4 Colour Settings gadget is for setting four Workbench colours.

Both modes should be set to accommodate editors and applications that use one setting or the other.

The Palette Preferences editor window displays the following nine items for which you can select specific colours:

  • Background Text
  • Important Text
  • BrightEdges
  • DarkEdges
  • Active Window Titlebars Active Window Titles
  • Menu Background Menu Text
Depending on the display mode set in the ScreenMode Preferences editor, the bottom of the Palette Preferences editor window displays a sample window that changes as you change colour selections. If this does not appear on your Palette Preferences editor window, a Show Sample gadget is displayed instead.

Clicking on this gadget displays the sample window showing your colour selections.

To change a colour in RGB mode:

  1. Point to a colour in the selection gadget and click the selection button.
  2. Use the slider gadgets to change the selected colour. The colour in the display box and on the sample screen changes as the bar is dragged through the slider box.
Changing the black and white settings may affect the three dimensional appearance of the screen.

Be sure colours replacing black are darker than colours replacing white.

To change a colour in HSB mode:

  1. Point to a colour in the selection gadget and click the selection button.
  2. Use the slider gadgets to change the selected colour. The colour in the display box and on the sample screen changes as the bar is dragged through the slider box.
The Hue slider changes the basic colour, the Saturation slider changes the amount of colour, and the brightness slider changes the lightness or darkness of the colour.

To change colour using the colour wheel:

  1. Point to a colour in the selection gadget and click the selection button.
  2. Point to the colour intensity indicator within the colour wheel and hold down the selection button.
  3. Moving the mouse pointer moves the indicator on the colour wheel, changing the colour in the display box and on the sample screen as the indicator moves. Release the selection button when you reach the colour you want.
In addition to the standard Preferences menus, the Palette editor also has a Presets menu item in the Edit menu that contains predetermined colour settings and a Settings menu item that lets you determine which Slider Colour Model to use for changing your colours.

If you have a monochrome monitor or if you choose a colour setting of 2 in the ScreenMode Preferences editor, the Palette Preferences editor only displays RGB colour sliders.

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