{"id":54,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=54"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"tweak-your-menu-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Tweak your menu colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people complain that it&#8217;s hard to distinguish pop-up menus with their wealth of offerings from a plain button with it&#8217;s single action. Visually both look identical&#8230;but.<br \/>\n The BeOS has a nice preference panel: <b>\/boot\/beos\/preferences\/Menu<\/b> which offers the ability to set the menu fonts and their sizes (somewhat). You&#8217;ll also find a &#8222;Color Scheme&#8220; entry here which lets you set the <i>background<\/i> of the menus to a new color (the text will remain drawn in black).<br \/>\n Now for the tip: Adjust this background color in some pleasing way (purists might slightly lighten or darken from the original gray (r=g=b=219), while the more bold will do as I and simply reduce the green value to 29), you always have the option of the &#8222;Default&#8220; button to get you back to the original.<br \/>\n Any new programs run after this will have the new looking menus, both pop-up and regular. This will make it very simple to tell buttons from pop ups!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people complain that it&#8217;s hard to distinguish pop-up menus with their wealth of offerings from a plain button with it&#8217;s single action. Visually both look identical&#8230;but. The BeOS has a nice preference panel: \/boot\/beos\/preferences\/Menu which offers the ability to set the menu fonts and their sizes (somewhat). You&#8217;ll also find a &#8222;Color Scheme&#8220; entry [&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-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}