{"id":487,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=487"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"keep-a-library-of-menu-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Keep a library of menu colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like to mess with your menu colors but don&#8217;t want to lose good color choices you&#8217;ve come up with in the past, use an app like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebits.com\/app\/918\">kColor<\/a> to store your favorites. kColor is a free replacement for the now defunct RoColor (old timers will remember it). Chosen colors can be saved in &#8222;buckets&#8220; and dragged out of the buckets onto any app that supports color drops. Drop a color into Pe or StyledEdit to have the hex equivalent inserted at that point. Drop a color into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebits.com\/app\/156\">SoundPlay<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebits.com\/app\/76\/\">DeskCalc<\/a> to have those apps turn that color. Or drop a color onto a non-wallpapered desktop to turn the desktop that color instantly.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/520.colorlib.png\" width=531 height=459 alt=\"520.colorlib.png\"><br \/>\nOne thing few people realize is that the Menu preferences panel will accept color drops from tools like kColor, which means you can use kColor&#8217;s &#8222;buckets&#8220; to keep a library of frequently used BeOS menu colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like to mess with your menu colors but don&#8217;t want to lose good color choices you&#8217;ve come up with in the past, use an app like kColor to store your favorites. kColor is a free replacement for the now defunct RoColor (old timers will remember it). Chosen colors can be saved in &#8222;buckets&#8220; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}