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Re: WIDGET COLORS [message #65652 is a reply to message #2385]

Fri, 13 March 2009 10:01

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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llo wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> Anybody knows how to change the default widget colors? The IDL
> widgets are so ugly and do something presentable is sometimes
> difficult.
> Anyway, how to change the WIDGET_TEXT background color ? The picture
> showed in the manual is white but my widget_text is grey. It depends
> of the OS ?
>
> Thanks,
> Llo

Yes, the color of the WIDGET_TEXT does depend on the OS. The only way I
know of changing colors, is that on Unix only, to use xdefaults. We use
the following to make the background of a WIDGET_TEXT white:

Idl*vv*XmText*background: white

Mike
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		Re: WIDGET COLORS By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 13 March 2009 10:01
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