Changing Your Colors
- Customize your
DTE color scheme
Customize the visual look of the Window application bar, field labels,
font style, and window background with a few quick code changes -- it's easy!
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Down To Earth input window
screens (sorry, for Windows environment only) isn’t as hard as you might
think. That standard grey background with black
lettering is OK but if you’d like to add some color to your day, keep reading
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There are
two parts to each window - the MS Windows® top bar and the
DTE controlled software colors within that window. Anyone can change the MS Windows top bar on their individual
PC. Changing DTE colors requires a little bit more
information and knowledge of DTE
synergy.ini file.
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Windows bar color
changes:
Right click anywhere on your desktop and choose
“Properties.” The Themes Tab displays,
offering standard desktop choices including the blue bar, “Windows Classic.”
Or choose the Appearance Tab to
change a color listed for your style.
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Colorizing DTE in
Windows:
The color scheme of all aspects of DTE is a
little more than we can explain with a web page so we’ve narrowed it to the
basics. It involves knowing what color you want
for the font and the background for your input windows and being able to edit your
synergy.ini file:
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The Synergy.ini file contains a [Colors]
section under the DTE Logicals. Within that section, there are
several “Color#” commands.
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DTE primarily
uses Color0,
Color9, and Color15 to control the font, text display, and background colors, respectively with Down To
Earth windows.
Now you need to know the
Hex code for the color you
want. For example, the Hex code for black is #000000,
white
is #FFFFFF, blue is #000080, and red is #800000.
The Hex code value is divided into the three sections for the
synergy.ini Color# command. For example,
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A black font is
coded: COLOR0=0x
00,0x00,0x00
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A blue font is
coded: COLOR0=0x
00,0x00,0x80
The same is true for the window background but use Color15. For example,
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White (no color)
is: COLOR15=0xFF,0xFF,0xFF
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Light Grey is: COLOR15=0xE8,0xE8,0xE8
See what
colors work for you:
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Windows Classic
style
Standard color
Blue
COLOR0= 0x 00,0x00,0x80
COLOR15=0xE 8,0xE8,0xE8
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Windows XP style
Olive green color
COLOR0=0x
00,0x 00,0x 00
COLOR15=0x
DD,0x DB,0x D0
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Windows Classic
style
Maple
color
COLOR0=0x
8B,0x 00,0x 00
COLOR15=0x
FF,0x FF,0x CC
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The above sample is defined with the Windows "Brick" Color scheme within Desktop Properties and
synergy.ini colors as:
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| COLOR0=0x2F,0x4F,0x4F |
Font - darkslategray |
#2f4f4f
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| COLOR9=0x80,0x00,0x00 |
Text display - maroon |
#800000
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| COLOR15=0xF5,0xF5,0xDC |
Background - beige |
#f5f5dc
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For basic Hex code color codes reference, visit:
www.webmonkey.com/reference/color_codes/
- or -
www.ebook2u.com/articles/color-code.shtml
For Conversion from Hex color codes to RGB and back again, visit:
www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/hex-to-rgb/color-converter.php
Synergy.ini [Colors] sample
section:
[Colors]
COLOR0=0x2F,0x4F,0x4F
COLOR1=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR2=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR3=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR4=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR5=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR6=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR7=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR8=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR9=0x80,0x00,0x00
COLOR10=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR11=0x00,0x00,0x00
COLOR12=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR13=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR14=0x00,0x00,0x80
COLOR15=0xF5,0xF5,0xDC
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