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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2008Textedit / Bean queries
I've found working with text on a light to medium gray background is nice on the eyes. So in Textedit, I changed the document color. Saved the changes and reopened it only to find it back with the white background. Did I do something wrong? In Bean when I switch (Opt_Tab) between open programs (Bean and something else), Bean doesn't seem to remember where I last was in a multi-page document. Also, it doesn't retain the grey document color that was set for it when a smaller window of another program is placed on top of it. Did I miss some settings? > I've found working with text on a light to medium gray background is > nice on the eyes. So in Textedit, I changed the document color. Saved [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > that was set for it when a smaller window of another program is placed > on top of it. Did I miss some settings? To take the latter problem first, did you go into preferences (Command plus comma on the keyboard) and under View, tick "Use alternate display colors" and then under Font, make your colour choices. Quit program and restart.  Signaturedorayme > The NewGuy <noemailhere@please.comm> wrote: > > I've found working with text on a light to medium gray background is [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > colors" and then under Font, make your colour choices. Quit program and > restart. I did that except for quitting the program and restarting. I'm not going to shut down a program every time I want it to remember something I selected. Surely its not necessary? > > The NewGuy <noemailhere@please.comm> wrote: > > > I've found working with text on a light to medium gray background is [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > going to shut down a program every time I want it to remember something > I selected. Surely its not necessary? As far as I can see, the background is a preference view setting and is not retained with the saved state in Bean. In other words, it will set the background to yellow (if so set) for any doc you now open even though that doc was not saved when the pref was different (eg. set to white). It is just an imposed View option. I have not been able to duplicate your problem regarding app switching or overlaying windows, sorry. Your OS? Mine is Tiger 10.4.10 Signaturedorayme In article <doraymeRidThis-3CBE60.11372516062008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>, > > > The NewGuy <noemailhere@please.comm> wrote: > > > > I've found working with text on a light to medium gray background is [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Your OS? Mine is Tiger 10.4.10 10.4.11 here. I really like Bean. Perhaps its just a quirk with my install. I should download a more recent build perhaps. Though like so many Apple compatible programs its lacking keyboard shortcuts and the ones they do use often are not Apple conventions. Its utterly mindless to use an unconventional shortcut - people have to learn more stuff for nothing. Wake up designers! If its popular, don't change the shortcut! It must be ego that drives people to do idiotic things like this. I see it all the time in Apple programs - different conventions from the same company! Enough to make you want to tear your hair out. Apple: Think Indifferent. |
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