Re: trying to set selectedTextBackgroundColor

[Chris B . Vetter]

On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 19:50:00 -0400
Jim Balhoff <balhoff@mac.com> wrote:
> I am still trying to change the highlight color of text.  From NSColor.h,
> I found that I need to set selectedTextBackgroundColor.  I've been trying
> commands like this:
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain selectedTextBackgroundColor '(0, 255, 0)'
> or
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain selectedTextBackgroundColor '(0, 1, 0)'

The colour definitions are not in X11 rbg style ...

    NSGlobalDomain = {
        [...]
        System = {
            controlBackgroundColor = "0.89 0.89 0.89";
            controlColor = "0.89 0.89 0.89";
            textBackgroundColor = "0.89 0.89 0.89";
            windowBackgroundColor = "0.89 0.89 0.89";
        };
        [...]

However, changing the values doesn't seem to work. At least not in Ink.app.

> I was expecting one of these to produce a green color, but actually after
> checking in Ink and GNUMail it appears that neither do a thing.  My
> highlight color is still a pale blue.

It's lightGray (0.667 0.667 0.667), not "pale blue", according to 
gui/Source/NSColor.m and gui/Source/externs.m

-- 
Chris