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By Dean Roddey

System Colours
 
SYSCLR_SHADOWHILITEBGND



SYSCLR_SHADOWHILITEFGND

   These values drive the colors of the text of a WPS
   Shadow icon when it is 'hilited' i.e., it is the selected
   WPS object. The foreground color drives the text and
   the background drives the background color of the text.

SYSCLR_SHADOWTEXT

   This value drives the foreground of the text of a WPS
   Shadow icon when it is not the 'hilited' object, i.e.
   some other object has the selected emphasis.

SYSCLR_ENTRYFIELD

   This value is kind of overloaded. It controls the
   background of an entryfield control, as the name would
   suggest. But is also controls the backgrounds of list
   boxes and MLEs.

SYSCLR_MENUDISABLEDTEXT

   As the name would suggest, the foreground color of
   the text in disabled menu entries is controlled by
   this value.

SYSCLR_MENUHILITE



SYSCLR_MENUHILITEBGND

   These values control the foreground and background
   colors of the text of menu items that are 'depressed',
   i.e. the one that you've moved the selection to via
   the keyboard or the submenu item that's depressed
   when you drop down its submenu. It does not affect
   disabled menu items.

SYSCLR_PAGEBACKGROUND

   This value controls the background of notebook pages,
   but usually this seems to be overridden by pres
   params.

SYSCLR_FIELDBACKGROUND

   This value controls the color of the shaft of scroll
   bars that are disabled because there is not enough
   data to need them. It is also used as the background
   color of the frames that WPS settings dialogs are in.
   It is also used to color that little leftover
   square at the bottom right of list boxes when they
   have a horizontal scroll bar.

SYSCLR_BUTTONDARK



SYSCLR_BUTTONLIGHT

   These values are used to drive the 3D look of
   controls when they want to do a raised or sunken
   look. Frame size borders, menus, scroll bars, system
   menus, disabled title bars, buttons, entry fields,
   spin boxes, group boxes, and MLEs all use these
   colors for this purpose.

   On MLE's, which use two interwoven boxes around them
   (of different colors) to achieve a sunken look, this
   controls the color that's usually the lighter color.

SYSCLR_BUTTONMIDDLE

   This value is often used on the inside of any area
   that is surrounded by a 3D effect caused by the
   previous two values. For instance, the middle of the
   thumb slider on scroll bars and the middle of
   buttons.

SYSCLR_BUTTONDEFAULT

   This value is used to control the color of the
   'default pushbutton emphasis.' You will notice that a
   DEFPUSHBUTTON has an extra (usually black) border
   around it and this border moves to the button that
   currently has the focus. 

   The color of this extra border is controlled by this
   value. If you tab such that a non-pushbutton has the
   focus, the dialog code will find the first push button
   that has the DEFBUTTON style and put the default
   emphasis back on it.

SYSCLR_TITLEBOTTOM

   When a frame is activated, its title bar paints
   itself in the activated mode. When it paints in this
   way, it will draw a line of this color along its
   bottom border to separate it from the menu or client
   area.

SYSCLR_ICONTEXT

   This value drives the color of the text in the task
   list. It also drives the color of the title text in
   container windows.

SYSCLR_DIALOGBACKGROUND

   This value is used to color the client area of
   dialogs, which have no client window. It colors the
   background of the toolbar and the backgrounds of WPS
   settings dialogs.

SYSCLR_HILITEFOREGROUND



SYSCLR_HILITEBACKGROUND

   These values drive the color of the text in any
   non-disabled, hilited text. So if you drop down a menu,
   or select some text in an entry field, or select an
   item in a list box or container, these will control
   the colors used. Strangely it does not appear to color
   the selected text of an MLE.

   These also control the text drawn under non-shadow WPS
   icons, when they are selected, i.e. you click on them
   and put the selection emphasis on them. The foreground
   color drives the text foregroun. The background color
   drives the block of color that the WPS draws behind
   the icon to indicate that it is selected. If the icon
   is also active, then this color is just cross hatched.

SYSCLR_INACTIVETITLETEXTBGND



SYSCLR_ACTIVETITLETEXTBGND

   These values drive the color used to draw the text of
   the titlebars of active or inactive frame windows. The
   background just affects the background of the text
   itself, it is not the color used to fill the title
   bar.

SYSCLR_INACTIVETITLETEXT



SYSCLR_ACTIVETITLETEXT

   Cousins of the previous two values, these control the
   foreground color of the text of active and inactive
   title bars.

SYSCLR_OUTPUTTEXT

   This value drives the foreground color of unselected
   text in entry fields.

SYSCLR_WINDOWSTATICTEXT

   As the name would suggest, this value drives the
   foreground color of text in static controls such as
   static text and group boxes.

SYSCLR_SCROLLBAR

   This value drives the background color of the shafts
   of enabled scroll bars.

SYSCLR_BACKGROUND

   This value drives the default background color of the
   desktop.

SYSCLR_ACTIVETITLE



SYSCLR_INACTIVETITLE

   These values drive the background color used to fill
   in the titlebars of active and inactive frames. For
   dialog borders, this color also is used to draw the
   border of the dialog.

SYSCLR_MENU

   This value drives the background color of menus,
   except for the 'depressed' menu items that are
   clicked on, or keyboarded to, or submenu items
   whose sub menus are dropped down.

SYSCLR_WINDOW

   This color is generally used to color the
   backgrounds of user windows or non-dialog frames that
   have no client window. It is also used as the
   disabled background color of the arrow buttons on
   notebook windows and the background color of
   containers.

   Like SYSCLR_FIELDBACKGROUND, discussed above, it
   also seems to drive the color of that little blank
   area at the bottom right of list boxes that have a
   horizontal scroll bar.

   It controls the color of SS_BKGNDFRAME style static
   windows.

SYSCLR_WINDOWFRAME

   This value drives a couple of things. Drop down and
   popup menus use it as their border. It is also used
   by buttons and list boxes on their left and bottom
   sides, in conjuction with the 3D colors discussed
   above, to provide contrast in case they are placed on
   a window that has a background color similar to their
   'light' 3D color. This avoids having the 3D color
   just blend into the background and look bad.

   Pushbuttons draw a single pixel all the way around the
   button in this color, then  do the 3D effect inside of
   it. The default pushbutton emphasis is done outside of
   this border.

   This color is drawn around the outside of a frame with
   a dialog border. When a dialog border is not active, a
   single pixel of this color is used as the border. Thin
   dialog borders are always drawn using this color,
   whether active or not.

   On MLE's, which use two interwoven boxes around them
   (of different colors) to achieve a sunken look, this
   controls the color that's usually the darker color.

   In details mode containers, this controls the color of
   the horizontal and vertical separator lines.

   It controls the color of SS_FGNDFRAME type static
   windows.

SYSCLR_MENUTEXT

   This value drives the foreground color of the text in
   menus. Only menu items that are not depressed or
   disabled are affected by this values.

   This value also controls the foreground color of the
   text in buttons, whether enabled or disabled.

SYSCLR_WINDOWTEXT

   This value drives the foreground color of the text
   in most of the standard controls. In listboxes, it
   colors the text of the non-selected items. In entry
   fields, spinboxes, and MLEs, it colors the text when
   its not selected. It is used by the 'page text' on
   the pages of a notebook control.

SYSCLR_TITLETEXT

   The docs say it colors title bars, size box, and 
   and scroll bar arrow boxes, but it does not seem to
   as far as I can tell.



SYSCLR_ACTIVEBORDER



SYSCLR_INACTIVE

   These values drive the color of the center part of
   an active or inactive frame's sizing border, usually
   a pale yellow and gray, respectively. The outside
   colors of these borders are driven by other colors
   in order to make them look 3D. It does not affect
   dialog or thin borders.

SYSCLR_APPWORKSPACE

   This value is often used to drive the color of the
   client areas of windows that implement a 'multi-
   document interface', i.e. they have a number of child
   frames within themselves.

SYSCLR_HELPBACKGROUND

   This value drives the background color of the help
   panels displayed by OS/2's online help system.

SYSCLR_HELPTEXT

   This value drives the foreground color of the text
   displayed in the help panels of OS/2's online help
   system. It only controls text that is not colored 
   specifically by the help author or which is a
   hyperlink.

SYSCLR_HELPHILITE

   This value drives the foreground color of hyperlink
   text in the OS/2 online help system.
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