filepro colors on Fedora

Tue Jun 29 19:11:35 PDT 2010

I will share something even stupider, because I am the senior dunce when it
comes to color on filePro... I just simply have never done more than this:

I define my colors using just the 6 available colors (on SCO, that is fg/bg,
reverse fg/bg, graphic line fg/bg)  with whatever colors look good to me ...
Making sure that there is no PV entry in the termcap I use. I copy the ansi
termcap in fp/termcap and take out the PV calling it ansi-nc (no color).
Then I design to my heart's content.  When all the users (who I make sure
use the straight ansi termcap *with* the PV in it) see the standard filePro
color scheme, and my screens look good to them and also to me. 

I understand that this is woefully unadventurous and doesn't make use of the
fabulous things color can do.  But, over the years and on the whole, it has
made things so much easier when I want to add something to a screen, or
build a new one. I'm never in for any surprises. My screens look exactly the
same on Windows as on *nix... Ford is in his Flivver... And etc.

This is one hint, I don't recommend anyone try... It is just the way I have
always done things and I wouldn't change it for the world.

John

P.s. I readily admit it... Here I am a pretty well respected and
acknowledged filePro guru... And whenever I have to modify a Windows color
screen, I'm calling everyone I know to say how do you get blue on white???
:-)  Yes, I know I can read the Control F-10 screen as well as anyone.... I
just hate all that trouble.  And, yes, by the way, I've used Laura's color
painter. It works great, too... But also, for my money more trouble than the
color is worth.

I do, by the way, have some old programs that show negative balances in
red... Cutesy, I know... But anything the customer wants I always say.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of Bruce Easton
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:19 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: filepro colors on Fedora
> 
> 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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