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Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
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Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

2208.0. "Black/White background maps" by MAYDAY::ANDRADE (The sentinel (.)(.)) Tue Jan 28 1992 14:19

    
    Not immediatly after installing DECmcc, but a couple weeks after.
    
    My DECmcc 1.2.4 has stoped taking any colors to the background
    maps. Now its either black or white and that is it for the regular
    background maps, worse still I can't see my .XBM background maps no 
    matter what I do.
    
    Changing colors in the MCC_RESOURCE.DAT file, makes no difference.
    
    My MCC_RESOURCE.DAT file had this originally:
    
    	mcc_pml.map_windowBackground:   Sky Blue
    	mcc_pml.map_backdropForeground: White
    
    Then one fine day when I invoked DECmcc, I got a "nice" background
    map of white on white, without having changed anything.
    
    I experimented a bit, and the only colors accepted are BLACK and
    WHITE. For the background map, all the other colors are working ok.
    
    Is there something I can do to fix this, or is this a bug ???
    
    Gil

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2208.1	Needs more info.	POLE::D_WONG	David Wong @LKG 2-2	`Tue Jan 28 1992 14:26`	24
	Gil, Where did you try to set display to (VAXstation or DECstation, B/W or color)? >> I got a "nice" background map of white on white, without having >> changed anything. 'background map' -- Do you mean a backdrop map (e.g. World map, U.S. map) or just the background of the map window? >> I experimented a bit, and the only colors accepted are BLACK and >> WHITE. For the background map, all the other colors are working ok. 'the only colors accepted are BLACK and WHITE' -- Which colors are you talking about here? windowBackground, iconForeground, etc.? 'For the background map, all the other colors are working ok.' -- You just said the background map is white on white; so what colors are working? needs more info, \david.
2208.2	QAR 2230	TOOK::MINTZ	Erik Mintz, DECmcc Development	`Tue Jan 28 1992 16:20`	2
	QAR 2230
2208.3	More details	MAYDAY::ANDRADE	The sentinel (.)(.)	`Wed Jan 29 1992 12:44`	22
	David I am using a color VAXstation. And as I said things worked ok for a while, before they took a turn to the worse. By background map, I mean the static map we enter on the back of the real DECmcc dynamic entities. Yes, the world and europe maps, etc. I used to have a white europe on a blue sea, but now have to content myself with a white europe on a black sea, or the reverse. And I cannot see at all the new (x11) .XBM bit maps, that you can use with the v1.2 of DECmcc. I had a couple maps of the local site. When I say that the other colors are ok, I mean the line, icon, and text colors. Those are still configurable. Gil P.S. I heard of a leat one other person with the same problem.
2208.4	No problem here.	NENE::D_WONG	David Wong @LKG 2-2	`Mon Feb 03 1992 11:54`	14
	Gil, I tried it on a color VAXstation with Sky Blue windowBackground and White backdropForeground, and it works fine on my end (i.e. white europe on a blue sea). Would you either post your mcc_resource.dat here or mail it to me (took::d_wong)? About the .XBM bit maps, make sure you include the directory with the bit map file (i.e. MY_BITMAP_DIR:xbm_filename.XBM). Otherwise, it will try to look for the XBM in your current directory (i.e. where you started MCC). \david.