NW601 Colour bug?

From: Herman den Hartog (hdha@CHELLO.NL)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 17:43:22 AEDT


Hi all,

I was trying to create a stick-on CD label in NW when I came across an oddity. I realise NW isn't a graphical app but I only wanted something simple, so why not?

Anyway, the idea was just a black or coloured circle (no filling), on top of that on one side a 40 percent grey rectangle and on top of that a small red dot followed by the name.

Sounds stupid perhaps, but in my eyes it doesn't look bad at all and NW is actually pretty useful here because I can set the margins to zero and with the left ruler on it's quite easy to position the whole thing to make it fit nicely in the sheets tear-out.

I know I can type the text (too bad it won't rotate <g>) on the text layer, but I tried some on the graphics one. After all, there is a text tool there...

Here's the colour weirdness: if I start typing on the graphics layer before anything else it all goes well and the text turns out black. However, if I type after first making a light grey rectangle the text tuns out grey also and I can't change it back to black or anything else. All the colour-boxes in the tools palette just beep.

Nothing serious, but still. Is it NW, am I doing something wrong or am I missing something?

Have fun, Hermie
hdha at chello dot nl



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