filepro colors on Fedora

[Bruce Easton]

Calvin, I was actually just getting ready to ask sort of the same thing 
about 1/2 hour ago.  I'm not very experienced with playing with colors 
in filepro, nor with messing with termcaps, and whenever I need to go 
into emulator settings for anything, I usually need a sudafed first.  
Anyway, we have this Fedora box where we installed filepro.  I think 
Cesar in our office set up the fp config file for the colors and it 
looks great when running fp apps.  Up until now, I've only ported fp 
apps over there and ran them as a demo.  Only recently have I needed to 
modify screens on that box - and when I do, it asks the question that 
you are changing the monochrome screen to a color screen.  For my needs 
(since I'm working on a lot of web front end stuff), I didn't really 
care if I messed up the monochrome screen.  But the problem is, that if 
I did want to change a field here and there, and start using color, I 
don't how you can do it under Linux fp - for instance, no shift-F10 to 
get color help.  So for a short while here, I've just been modifying the 
monochrome screens on my back-up system and porting them over to the 
Fedora box.

I understand that Laura has a utility for easier color mgt., and it 
sounds like that is available for all platforms for fp ?4.8? and above - 
at least I think I saw that somewhere.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I think it would be really sad if you 
really have no color control native to fp under Linux.  Or maybe if that 
is the case, then is it only because I'm using an xterm emulation that 
the default for fp is to assume that I'm gonna work with color and not 
monochrome screens?

But since I'm working with an xterm emulation - I discovered something 
by pure guess only about 15 minutes ago.  If I change the termcap 
specification for something called "tc" where it says "tc=linux" to says 
"tc=ansi", then walla - I can work in monochrome mode on the Fedora and 
modify screens, keeping them in monochrome.  I did after that need to 
set in the Mac's terminal setting the background to something 
appropiatley offsetting to the text color (from blue to off-white, and 
the text color is black).  But at least now I can work this way.

I guess also once I'm finished modifying screens in mono-mode there, I 
guess I can always switch that entry back to 'linux' so that I can demo 
char-based stuff in the great-looking color scheme that's there.

Now like I say, I'm a dunce when it comes to all this 
terminal/termcap/color stuff, so I'm sure I'm going about this all 
wrong, but wanted to share this and maybe learn something from other 
responses on this.



Bruce


Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.



On 6/29/10 1:26 PM, Calvin Covington wrote:
> How can I tame filepro colors on Fedora 13.....   monochrome would be fine.
>
> thanks
>
> Calvin
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