Yep, that's the same way I've been doing it for years. Played around with different background colors in the past, but black just seems right. For the foreground colors I am currently using Green, Turquoise, White, Yellow, and Orange.
To make it easy to differentiate each window when minimized to the task bar or piled up behind others, I also changed the Icon under Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Window Setup. I made custom icons of just the first letter of the client or system (the logos became unrecognizable) and then colored them the same as the foreground color for that session.
Brian Dolinar.
"Elvis Budimlic" <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have multiple systems and use iSeries Access Personal Communications
emulator.
What we do to differentiate between the systems is click on:
Edit-->Preferences-->Appearance-->Color Mapping
and change the Foreground color to some convention we've agreed upon.
Then when I'm in my colleague's office helping him out with something I know
what box we're on for sure and don't have to waste my time on a PICNIC
(Problem In Chair Not In Computer).
HTH, Elvis
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Subject: Client Access colors
Does anyone have a color scheme that makes it obvious it's not the default
color scheme? I've got three systems to connect to, including a new one
that is the production box, and I need to use a color scheme that "stands
out" (but that does not spear the eyes, either). I'm thinking maybe a white
background. FWIW, I'm using iSeries Access for Windows V5R3M0 on WinXP SP2.
Here's what I now have in my Prod.ws file:
[Colors]
ExtendedColorBlue=B3C0F7 6F006B
ExtendedColorGreen=8DF38B 6F006B
ExtendedColorPink=FF7DFF 6F006B
ExtendedColorRed=F56D6D 6F006B
ExtendedColorTurquoise=58F0F0 6F006B
ExtendedColorWhite=FFFFFF 6F006B
ExtendedColorYellow=FFFF00 6F006B
OIAColorBackground=6F006B
OtherScreenColor=6F006B
If you have a scheme that seems to fit what I'm looking for, could I ask you
to send the contents of the aboive section from your .ws file?
TIA,
Dan
midrange.com
