Shari, The wierd colors you experience may be related to your 256-color monitor settings, since each window that is running could potentially have a different color palette. My suggestion would be to set your monitor to thousands and see if you still get the color shifting problem.
Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:02 PM Subject: Re: Option buttons > >You may need to "set the colors of this stack to the colors of stack > >home". You only need to do this once during development. When you > >save a stack for the first time using the File menu, it is supposed > >to do that automatically for you but I have had instances where it > >didn't -- probably I saved from the message box or something. The > >stack colors are inherited from the Home stack unless you set them > >differently. When you remove the Home stack from the hierarchy, > >there are no colors to inherit. Make sure the stack has its own. > > That brings up another question... > > Often during development, all of Metacard's stacks will change color, > often to a very dark grey. In checking the color settings of the > stacks, the settings haven't changed. Yet on screen suddenly all the > Metacard windows are another color. The only fix is to quit and > relaunch. > > Even if I set the cantModify of the home stack to true, it happens. > > My own stacks remain fine. But Metacard's change. > -- > --Shareware Games for the Mac-- > http://www.gypsyware.com > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
