[moneydance] New Transaction colors

[Gordon Alley]

I guess it depends on your screen. I recently got a new iMac 24. Possibly
because the screen is so bright and has a wide viewing angle, I didn't
really have any difficulty reading the text with Java 1.6 (didn't even
realize it had changed). But I can see that some users with other screens or
visual impairment could have trouble.
 As the OP said, in a new transaction, some of the empty fields are sold
gray with light gray text labels where the typed text will go ("Check #",
"Description", "Memo"). When text is entered into these fields, it appears
as black text on the gray background. When the transaction is posted, the
text is black on a white background, alternating lines with light gray on a
cyan background (for future transactions, all backgrounds are yellow).

Now I'm wondering - if not for the Java 1.6 bug, what is the intended
appearance?

-Gordon

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Richard Hurt <rnhurt at kangaroobox.com>
wrote:

> Sean,
>
> Yup, that was the problem.  I had actually changed Info.plist to force
> it to use Java 6 so I just had to undo my change and it went back to
> working properly again.
>
> Thanx!
>   Richard
>
>
> Sean Reilly wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> > This is a bug in java 1.6 on the Mac.  To work around it, open the
> > Java Preferences application and set it so that java 1.5 is preferred
> > to 1.6.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sean
> >
> > On May 16, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Richard Hurt <rnhurt at kangaroobox.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am running MoneyDance 2008 (606) on Mac OS X 10.5 under Java 1.6 and
> >> am experiencing some problems with the new transaction look & feel.
> >> Currently, when I enter a new transaction the background color is dark
> >> gray with a font color of light gray and it makes it very hard to see
> >> what I'm doing.  I looked in the prefs for a way to change it but I
> >> everything I tried didn't work.  Previously it was not like this and
> >> was
> >> much easier to use.
> >>
> >> Is anyone else experiencing this problem?  Is it a Mac-only thing or
> >> possibly a Java 1.6 on Mac thing?  How can I fix it?
> >>
> >> Thanx!
> >>  Richard
>
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Gordon B. Alley
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