QE, low eyestrain version.

[hutch--]

I have been doing some more work on QE, mainly internal optimisation and this time bothered to tweak the interface to a monochrome colour scheme. I confess to nearly going blind doing a monochrome toolbar with only 4 colours in 16 colour mode but it seems to work OK and will still display fine on VGA on a 486 or a low output display notebook.

If anyone who is used to using QE has the time, comments would be welcome.

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[Vortex]

It works fine on my Win XP HE SP2 :U

[PBrennick]

Hutch,
It works fine but I do not care for the monochrome look. People still use monochrome? I doubt you can even buy one in the US except at a yard sale or a hobbyist website. Then you would need to get an RF Converter as it is a serial signal.

Paul

[MichaelW]

It works OK on my Windows 2000 SP4 system, but some of the toolbar icons are difficult to identify, perhaps because my monitor has no red output.

[zooba]

Nice. Looks a little classier than the coloured version (which I use all the time).

Making the background of the textbox a light grey would improve (ie. reduce) eye strain better though :wink

Cheers,

Zooba :U

[Ghirai]

Works fine on Xp Pro SP2 and 2k3 enterprise.

Ditto on the light grey background.

[hutch--]

hmmmm,

It looks like its back to VGA technicolor.  :(

I have rebuilt the app with a later compiler that has allowed me to tweak some of the internal code, I have also rewritten some of the internal assembler code to get it a bit faster and smaller which has then allowed me to do a few things that took extra space. The monochrome interface looks good on my high res monitors but the app must be able to be read on low res monitors and notebooks so it had to go.

The edit control background colour is set in the OS so that the app has the same background as everything else. Its easy enough to add an option for background colour but it starts to lose its direct OS compatibility.

Attached is the VGA technicolor version.

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[PBrennick]

With my notebook, the version in the distribution looks a lot crisper. For some reason some of the icons are washed out in this new version, especially the copy icon.

Paul

[hutch--]

Thanks Paul, it looks like I will have to go for higher contrast, its just that i was trying to slightly modernise the toolbar icons but any anti aliasing wrecks the contrast on non-high end displays.

[daydreamer]

Hutch,
It works fine but I do not care for the monochrome look. People still use monochrome? I doubt you can even buy one in the US except at a yard sale or a hobbyist website. Then you would need to get an RF Converter as it is a serial signal.

I am reading this with my browser that overrules colors to create a monochrome look, a kind of cool thematrix look and I think staring at a lightbulb all day isnt good for the eyes and plus as hobbiest after workhours can be many extra hour on a computer,cant be good with blacktext on white  just to have the same look as on paper, but you seldom need print things for others, which is the only reason I see it should look the same as on printout

I dont care if you think its strange,its just  common sense vs must do what everybody else does

[PBrennick]

daydreamer,
What browser are you using and what changes did you make. I am online for many hours a day and it is sometimes frustrating. I would not mind seeing something easier on the eyes. I know that SMF allows skins but Hutch hasn't provided us with any.

Paul

[daydreamer]

daydreamer,
What browser are you using and what changes did you make. I am online for many hours a day and it is sometimes frustrating. I would not mind seeing something easier on the eyes. I know that SMF allows skins but Hutch hasn't provided us with any.

Paul

firefox
tools->settings-> and look for use own colors and characters and set textcolor to green, background color to black, also I set smallest charactersize to size 12, you can also change dpi to easierread characters
no plugins, so I dont need to watch all these flash ads on the web

[PBrennick]

FireFox bundles with the Google Toolbar which I dislike so I do not use that browser. I have asked them for a version that is free of bundling but have not gotten a reply, yet.

Paul

[daydreamer]

FireFox bundles with the Google Toolbar which I dislike so I do not use that browser. I have asked them for a version that is free of bundling but have not gotten a reply, yet.

Paul

*checks version*
no google toolbar  on this 1.06 versio

[GregL]

I was going to say the same thing, there is no Google Toolbar bundled with FireFox.

You must be thinking of the Google Pack, which bundles FireFox, and includes the Google Toolbar.

I always get FireFox directly from the source, Mozilla. FireFox version 2.0 was just released and it's great.