I did in fact have Walt and Mike's names mixed up. As for getting the black background Walt. The procedure I gave you using the high contrast does in fact work with Cumberland Family Tree Maker. I did it again with my own program to make sure I had given you correct information. It gave me black where the white background was and bright yellow fonts. Another of the high contrasts gave me bright green fonts. I don't mean to beat a dead horse but this does in fact work. As this might be getting old for the list, if you would like to e-mail me personally, I'd be glad to walk through it with you. Dawn Conner-Jeppesen http://www.geocities.com/frwhlngrl/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "walterboswell1" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [CFTW]changing icon colors > Hi, Mike, et al-- > > This is true. Mike and I obviously have different concerns. I am legally > blind and can only read white fonts against dark backgrounds. The size and > color of the icons in 3.07 don't bother me because I use a screen > magnifying program. It's the color of the icon background that bothers me. > So far, I have been unable to do anything about the very light color behind > the icons. The same problem exists in the database and configuration areas. > Since the background is very light there too, and I have to use white > fonts, I cannot see the white lettering against the light background. > Apparently, there is no way to change the color of this background. I have > tried everything possible in > properties>appearance and, even if I use the scheme setting in appearances, > the background to the icons and the configuration areas still remains > white. So: unless somebody has another idea, I guess I'll just have to stay > with v2.51. Ira is right, of course. 3.07 does have a lot of improvements > in terms of accessibility. As he pointed out previously, I can now change > the font size and color in "notes", I couldn't do that in 2.51 but, at the > same time, there were no white background areas in 2.51 either. > > At any rate, thanks for the help. > > walt boswell > [email protected] > > > > At 05:19 PM 05/20/2001 +0000, MJ wrote: > >My thanks to all those who gave suggestions for changing the appearance of > >program windows. > >I'm quite happy with the program window apparance it's the day-glo pink > >color of the CFT source icon that I wanted to change. > >I beleive my request was confused with the gentleman who wanted bigger type > >against a different backgrond in this windows programs, the suggestions > >offered will do that but not change icon colors. > > > >Mike > > > > > >==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > >To unsubscribe from CFT-WIN, send an e-mail message to: > > [email protected] (for individual messages) > > [email protected] (for Digest mode) > >Subject: unsubscribe > >In the body include only one word: unsubscribe > >(Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > > > >============================== > >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from CFT-WIN, send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] (for individual messages) > [email protected] (for Digest mode) > Subject: unsubscribe > In the body include only one word: unsubscribe > (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >