Re: NW601 Colour bug?

From: Doug Hardie (bc979@LAFN.ORG)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 18:34:24 AEDT


At 1:43 -0500 1/12/01, Herman den Hartog wrote:
>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

I made the same thing occur.  However, by selecting the arrow and
then the text, I could use the pen color to change the color of the
text.  You may have to move some objects to the background to get at
the text.
--
-- Doug



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