#FC II
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I take back everything bad I ever said about Final Copy. The up
grade is terrific and I am now more than satisfied with FC2. It does every
thing I need to do and more. Thanks for your diligence.
I just have a couple of questions. I am using an 8-color
interlaced screen, with a medium blue as the background color, white as the
highlight, black as the shadow and orange as the fill. FC has picked cyan
as the color for highlighting text and for the cursor. It's a bit too
light for my taste and I'd like to change it. I tried changing the cyan
color using the Docu ment Colors palette, but the change does not affect
the screen. How can I change the cursor and highlighting color? (I know I
can change to 4 colors and black will be the cursor and highlight color but
I'd like to stay with the 8-color screen).
Second, is there any way to disable the "Okay to quit program?"
prompt that comes up every time you close a document? Or can you change
the default answer to "No" instead of "Yes" so a simple CR would get rid of
the prompt and keep the program running? (This is obviously not new to
FC2; it was a feature of the old FC as well).
So far those are the only things I can't seem to figure out.
Just wanted to also let you know that the price of the upgrade was
fair and the decision to supply us with an all new manual was a nice touch.
Since I do mostly straight WP and no DP I probably won't use some
of the new features such as the grafix tools, but there are a lot of new
fea tures I really do appreciate. One I have never seen before–and
therefore never really considered–is the little line on the ruler that
shows me where the cursor is. It's a bitch sometimes to line up columns of
text or numbers and this is a really elegant solution. If others aren't
providing it I suspect they will one of these days. It's a real nice
feature.
Since I once took the time to trash your old product I felt a need
to take time now to praise the new one. When a company makes an effort to
upgrade and support its products it deserves our praise and support. I
Michael, thank you for your comments on FCII. I know you were unhappy with
the original FC, and I am glad you feel differently about FCII.
To change the cyan color you are referring to, it is necessary to change it
from the Workbench palette. Unfortunately, we have no control over the
color Intuition uses to compliment selections. If you are using Workbench
1.3, however, you won't be able to modify the Workbench palette for that
color. Document Color Prefs only define colors used for text and graphics
drawn within FinalCopy. Perhaps we should include all colors used by a
screen in the Screen Color Prefs. I hope you will be able to modify your
Workbench palette.
There is no way of turning off the message you referred to. It was
installed as a safety mechanism to prohibit a user from accidentally
quitting the program before saving a changed document. The default is the
way it is so that the user must do something less automatic than hitting
the RETURN key to exit the program without saving the changes he has made
in a document.
Once again, I am happy you like FCII and appreciate your comments about it.
We will continue to support FC with significant and inexpensive upgrades.
Woody
I'll try modifying the palette on the WB. (I'm using 2.04). I figured
there was no way to get rid of the prompt, but I figured I'd ask anyhow.
Once again, thanks for the good job on the upgrade.
Mike Cullison