Font and Color Settings
Font and color settings are controlled by a number of Font Dialogs, which
are accessed from the Fonts page of the
Settings Dialog. Some of the Font Dialogs are
accessible from an alternate location, as disclosed in the descriptions
that follow.
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Compose
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the main text area of the
Compose window. (The quoted message window uses
the Message font and color settings.)
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Folder tree
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the Folder
Tree.
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Headings
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
used to highlight section headings in dialogs. Many of the settings panels
(custom programs, fonts and colors, etc.) use this font setting.
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Help
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the panel color (the text color is currently ignored) for the help pages.
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Main
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the Main
Window panels and controls. Unless otherwise mentioned, these font and
color settings are also used for all other panels and controls.
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Menu
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes to
use for all menus.
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Message
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the text
browser (both the ICE HTML and the HotJava browsers ignore the color settings).
Unless otherwise mentioned, these font and color settings are also used for all
text input fields and text display areas (but not for text labels).
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Message list
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
and the text and panel colors to use for the Message
List.
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Title
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This Font Dialog allows you to change the font family, size, and attributes,
used to render the gradient title bar, usually seen at the top of a dialog.
For example, all the settings panels make use of this gradient title bar. Since
the gradient transitions from the foreground color to the background color, you
should make your foreground color setting for this very dark and the background
very light for the best effect. For Java 1.1.x users, the color value is
ignored and the gradient.jpg grapic image is used to determine the color.
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Change colors
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This button displays the Select a Font dialog which modifies the current
attribute values which are allowed to be changed. For example, only the
font attributes can be changed on menus, not colors. However, most other
settings allow both fonts and color attributes to be changed.
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Consolidate colors
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This Query Window allows you to change all of the font and color settings to
match the font and color settings for the Main Font Dialog.