----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:43
PM
Subject: RE: add button to change color
for shading headers
Could we add a button that could
universally change any shaded header background color as we now have in the
color tab for Background - otherwise you have to manually change all the
headers that are shaded
see attached
One small point of order. "Shaded" and "Background Color" are
orthogonal. There isn't any such thing as the "shaded header
background color". The shaded checkbox doesn't make the header a gray
color: It takes the color that is there and shades
it. If the background color is white, then you get gray. It the bg
color is blue, you get a dirty blue. Try it.
That said, I think I see what you are driving at here. Just
clicking the shaded checkbox is a lot easier than picking some esoteric color
from the color dialog every time. What you really are trying to say is
"use this color when the shaded checkbox is checked". Its not so
much that the manually changing all the headers is the problem. You
have to click the shaded box at some point after all. Its just that
clicking a checkbox is easier than picking a color out of a color
dialog.
Okay, we need an "override shaded
color" button in the color
dialog. Leaving this color as transparent would leave the
current behaviour intact. That is, not transparent, but shaded in the
current sense of the shaded checkbox. Overriding the color would paint
an an opague color as the background, not shade. Makes sense. This
is pretty easy to implement, but it will have to wait for a major release
since we need to store the color somewhere. We'll try to slip it into
1.18 series.
One question though. I bet that the lions share of the headers
on your ballot other than the instruction text is shaded, right?
How about selecting the color you want for shaded headers as the ballot
options header background color. Don't click shaded in any of the
headers. Then for the couple of headers that are not shaded, pick white
as the background header in the header dialog. This works without a
whole lot of mouse clicks. Sufficient?
Ken