[moneydance] New Transaction colors

[Gordon Alley]

Sorry to reply to myself, but I just did what I should have done before
posting that query, and switched my preferred Java from 6.0 (64-bit) to 5.0
(64-bit) to see what's different.
Now the text labels in empty fields are light gray on a white background. On
my screen, I think that's harder to read than the light gray on gray
background (maybe because the white is so bright, I guess). Bug or not, I'm
going to switch back to 6.0. :-)

-Gordon

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gordon Alley <gordon at gordonalley.com>
wrote:

> 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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