[jp] How to create jpilotrc.color file

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  • R Talbot sqlpython at sbcglobal.net
    Thu Jul 13 15:59:37 EDT 2006

     

    Thanks for the Reply..
      My problem is that I need an example of a jpilotrc.<whatever> file as I have 
    None.
     Can you or someone post the file contents for one example.
    
    Thanks Very Much
    Bob
    
    On Thursday, July 13 2006 03:37 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
    > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Judd Montgomery wrote:
    > > You could grab the color files from the source tarball on the jpilot.org
    > > website and put them into the appropriate place, which is probably
    > > /usr/share/jpilot/.  Running jpilot with a "-d" option will tell you
    > > where its looking for the color files.  jpilotrc.purple, and some of the
    > > other color files have some comments as to what widgets the colors
    > > affect.
    >
    >    Another approach is what I used to create my color scheme. The basic
    > color of my jpilot window is 'wheat,' and the default text on widgets used
    > to be white. The contrast was too low for comfortable viewing, so I changed
    > the widget colors to black.
    >
    >    I set jpilotrc.<whatever> as the default until I saw one with black text
    > on the widgets. This told me where I wanted the RGB designator { 1.0, 1.0,
    > 1.0 } (black). I then edited /usr/local/share/jpilot/jpilotrc.wheat and
    > replaced the white text foreground of { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 } and was good to go.
    >
    >    If you prefer to roll your own color schemes, a Google search for 'rgb
    > colors' will produce tables that will give you the decimal representation
    > for just about any color your monitor can display.
    >
    > Rich
    
    

     

     

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