System colours file

[John.Pryal]

Hi all,

i was wondering if anyone has a system colours file they would like to share. I have been working with the pre-wildfire colour scheme for years now, & fancy a change. It would be great if there were a selection of different schemes to try, is there such a thing.

Regards

John

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[KrisR]

I have one......would you like to message me an email address?

[TomD.inPDX]

I found the old classic color scheme in a few help texts and tried them on my laptop. The blue background washed out the yellow dimensions and made them look white or pale.

So I tried one of the alternate system defaults... Dark Background. Comes out pretty nice. And to provide a little special touch, a dark blue hue gradient (65 or less) really pops on the screen.

Remember that the system color interface is a bit touchy when it comes to activating gradients.

Now where do I set the skin colors of the interface?

[TomD.inPDX]

Interesting... See if you can find anything about the first two config options for the syscolor.scl file

I just mapped these from the Dark Background settings with a dark blue hue gradient background.

Just copy and paste the list below into a <name>.scl file and open it in options, system colors.

Try switching the USE_PRE_WILDFIRE_ENTITY_COLOR to NO as an option

And I would really like to know valid entries for COLOR_SCHEME

Both of these seem to be hidden options not documented anywhere.

COLOR_SCHEME 0

USE_PRE_WILDFIRE_ENTITY_COLOR YES

SYSTEM_DIMMED_MENU_COLOR 57.8125 57.8125 59.765625

SYSTEM_LETTER_COLOR 100.0 79.6875 19.921875

SYSTEM_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR 39.84375 7.8125 7.8125

SYSTEM_EDGE_HIGH_COLOR 100.0 14.84375 14.84375

SYSTEM_GEOMETRY_COLOR 94.53125 94.53125 97.65625

SYSTEM_HIDDEN_COLOR 75.78125 75.78125 79.6875

SYSTEM_SHEETMETAL_COLOR 7.8125 39.84375 7.8125

SYSTEM_CURVES_COLOR 19.921875 19.921875 59.765625

SYSTEM_VOLUME_COLOR 39.84375 19.921875 39.84375

SYSTEM_SECTION_COLOR 19.921875 79.6875 100.0

SYSTEM_PRESEL_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR 39.84375 100.0 19.921875

SYSTEM_SELECTED_COLOR 19.921875 79.6875 39.84375

SYSTEM_SECONDARY_SELECTED_COLOR 19.921875 79.6875 79.6875

SYSTEM_PREVIEW_GEOM_COLOR 100.0 54.6875 0.0

SYSTEM_SECONDARY_PREVIEW_COLOR 79.6875 39.84375 59.765625

SYSTEM_DATUM_COLOR 59.765625 39.84375 19.921875

SYSTEM_QUILT_COLOR 100.0 79.6875 19.921875

SYSTEM_SHADED_EDGE_COLOR 4.6875 4.6875 5.078125

SYSTEM_BACKGROUND_COLOR 0.0 0.0 19.921875

BLENDED_BACKGROUND yes

SYSTEM_TOP_BLENDING_COLOR 0.0 0.0 23.4375

SYSTEM_BOTTOM_BLENDING_COLOR 0.0 0.0 11.71875

[John.Pryal]

Hi Antonius,

after spending some time messing around with system colours, i came to the conclusion that, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I have decided to stick with the pre-wildfire scheme i have been using for the last 16 years.

Regards

John

[TomD.inPDX]

Is that the yellow text, white geometry on a blue background with yellow and red datums?

That switch in the top of the file seems to have set that for me.

USE_PRE_WILDFIRE_ENTITY_COLOR YES

Nice touch even though it is undocumented. It seems to be over writing several of the later settings in the file.

[John.Pryal]

Yes Antonius, they are the colours i am using.

Regards

John

[ptc-4696138]

How the H-E-double-hockey-sticks do I change the screen color??? I can't find ANY reference to it, either by surfing the menus or in the worthless "Help" file. The white background is virtually unusable. Thanks.

[TomD.inPDX]

It's still a bit buggy but you have two options that can get in the way of each other.

Not knowing your version, it is hard to point you in the right direction but in Creo...

System Color (big settings button or Options under the file menu)

\background

and query the Gradient dialog. The gradient option is what tends to over-ride your non-gradient settings.

There are also some (few) system default schemes on the menu at the top of the system color options.