Hello
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to change the background color of the application window ?
I would like the whole area outside the drawing window (the drawing page) to be grey, so that it can be clearly distiinguished from the actual drawing page, which is white, with a shadow line around the drawing page.
Is this possible?
Thanks for any tips.
toymaker1 said: Hello Can anyone tell me if it is possible to change the background color of the application window ? I would like the whole area outside the drawing window (the drawing page) to be grey, so that it can be clearly distiinguished from the actual drawing page, which is white, with a shadow line around the drawing page. Is this possible? Thanks for any tips.
Hi.
This question has come up many times. Work arounds have been suggested in the other posts but tend to be more hassle than they're worth.
Hopefully this simple feature will be added to X6.
-John
Thanks Runflacruiser
Hi Toymaker and others,
I just made a macro for you after reading your enquiry. It adds a 20% grey background around your ACTIVE page. There is one sub to add the background and another to remove it any time. I made it work on a page-by-page basis for coding simplicity in case you have pages of different sizes/orientations within the same document and add more later on. Open or create a document, run the AddGreyBackground code and then do the same when you get to the 2nd and 3rd pages....etc. Run the DeleteGreyBackground code any time you want to delete it from a page.
The grey background appears on its own layer at the bottom of the stacking order and is set to non-editable and non-printable.
Can someone please test it and let me know if it works the way you want it to?
Best regards,Brian.
Here is the macro in action on my screen. Please note that you cannot see it in the video, but I am double-clicking each macro module, not single-clicking as it seems in the video:
Brian said:Here is the macro in action on my screen. Please note that you cannot see it in the video, but I am double-clicking each macro module, not single-clicking as it seems in the video:
Hi Brian.
Well that sure looks like it removes some hassle. Nice.