Re: QuickBasic 4.5 Colours

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:38:03 -0000, "George"
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:45:55 -0600, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"George" <georgefour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!
Some time ago, I had a problem with the colours in QB4.5
In the editing mode, it was difficult to read watch point values,
because
foreground/background colours were similar.
Someone kindly explained how to change these.
I've lost the info!!!!!!
Can anyone help, please?

QB keeps it's settings in a file named QB.INI. If that file is missing
when QB is executed, QB will create a new, default one. Simply delete
or rename QB.INI, run QB, set the options like you want, exit, and
*MAKE A BACKUP COPY* of the resultant QB.INI. :-)

While QB only allows you to change 3 color settings, there are more
like 20 some stored in the INI file. This is true for most of the
Character Windows programs that I have checked, including:
QB 4.5 thru VBDOS 1.0, EDIT.com Quick C, Quick Asm and others.

Somewhere I have programs that allow me to change any of them.
To make things more interesting, each of those programs' INI files
have a different format. I haven't looked at those programs in years.

Many thanks!
Will try it.

The original method was to edit QB itself, at some address, and change a
value.
The result of the change had to be tested.

Thanks again, will be back if I still need help!

Well, I just looked at those old programs. QB.INI appears to have
places for about 25 colors, however, when changed by hand, QB.EXE
seems to overwrite most of them. It may be that for QB 4.5, editing
qb.exe may be the only way.

Usually, there are two tables, b&w and color. Sometimes, four.

Since I don't use QB 4.5 for much of anything. I never really
identified the locations for the color table(s) for the format for
QB.INI.

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