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PRB: SET COLOR TO Results in Differing Shades of Gray

Article ID: 114791

Article Last Modified on 11/17/2003

Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b for Macintosh
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 2.5c for Macintosh
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q114791

SYMPTOMS

The default desktop color is a different shade of gray than the default color pair displayed for scheme 1 in FoxPro for Macintosh.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because the default color set is actually using an RGB value for the color information. The color pair listing returned by scheme(1) returns information in color pair letters, which are an approximation of the current RGB settings. The SET COLOR TO n/w* command uses a different set of RGB values to represent gray.

RESOLUTION

To restore the default desktop color programmatically, issue the following commands:

   SET COLOR TO
   CLEAR

For more precise control over the colors, use RGB values instead of color pairs.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Start FoxPro for Macintosh.
Issue the following commands in the Command window:
```
      SET COLOR TO
      CLEAR
      ?SCHEME(1)
						
```
Note that the desktop is a pale gray. The first color pair listed for scheme 1 is "N/W*".

Issue the following commands in the Command window:

      SET COLOR OF SCHEME 1 TO "n/w*"
      CLEAR
      ?SCHEME(1)

Note that the desktop is now a darker shade of gray, although the color pair information returned by the second ?SCHEME(1) command is identical to the color pair information returned by the first command.

REFERENCES

For more information about color schemes and color pairs, see the SET COLOR commands in the "Language Reference."

Additional query words: VFoxMac FoxMac colorset grey colour colourset

Keywords: KB114791