White text on a white background - AAARRRGGHHH!!

[Guest Stuart P]

Probably a stupid question, but where does the calendar application pick up its normal, unselected text colour from?

I've got COLOR_WINDOWTEXT and COLOR_STATICTEXT both set to black, yet I still get white unselected appointments in my calendar :?

All the other applications seem fine - black text on white background as nature intended! Any ideas appreciated.

Stu

(edit) turns out to be contolled by COLOR_BTNTEXT. Does this mean if I want a white "start" button on a dark button background like my computer, the calendar won't work properly? Anyone know of a workaround?

[Guest midnight]

errr, change the text in the calendar plugin so instead of 'COLOR_BTNTEXT' have the actual colour (eg black would be '#000000')

[Guest Stuart P]

Cheers Midnight, but don't know if I explained well enough -

I've got a home screen with all plugins black by default (including the calendar plugin). My softkeys are white text (COLOR_BTNTEXT) on a dark background (COLOR_BTNFACE).

If you click through the calendar plugin into the actual calendar application, you can see a list of all the forthcoming appointments for the day. As you scroll down the list, the one selected appointment picks up its colours ok from HOMEHIGHLIGHT and HOMEHIGHLIGHTTEXT. Trouble is, all the unselected ones are on a white background (probably COLOR_WINDOW or COLOR_STATIC?) but pick up my white BTNTEXT as their colour.

I thought about changing BTNTEXT to a very light grey (#dddddd ?) but it still doesn't show up very well once you're in the main application.

Any thoughts?

[Guest drblow]

I know what you mean - but unfortunately its just one of the problems when creating a colour scheme. I especially find the calender tricky because as you say, the BTN_TEXT is also the coplour used in the calender. Its just a cse of fiddling with the colours till you get something you can use. If you are going for a black/white kind of theme, try changing the background colours to dark grey & the text to light grey, that kind of thing.

[Guest scott2eyes]

On the default Orange homescreen (ukfinal.home.xml in the Windows folder) there's some extra colour codes including COLOR_CALOFFHOURS and COLOR_CALONHOURS. Maybe these have something to do with the colours the application uses?

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest Stuart P]

interesting. Tried them both on my home layout, set to clashing colours to figure out what they do. Can't see any changes within calendar though.

Anyone know what they do?