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RE: ability to do white text on black



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> From: owner-rcr@ns.dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-rcr@ns.dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of
> Tari Runyan
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 10:05 PM
>
> We will need the ability to do white text on black background for the
> upcoming General in AZ-  this is needed by Sept 10.
> Tari

Check out the date on this one.  Also check out this screenshot:

 

This was also submitted by Nel 7/22/99 as "reverse text option".

The text background color can now be anything you like, including black.  Up 'til now the only way you could do this was with a windows metafile created with CorelDraw or similar.  This was due to a limitation in the Microsoft edit control.  GEMS now uses a new version of this control.  Use the square blue icon in the GEMS editor to set the text background color:

 

Credit goes to Tab for putting this together.  Its in 1.16.3.

Ken