At last, we now can set the color/contrast of the desktop and not be so blinded by the abundance of white.....
Thank you, Corel, for this nice gift.
Pretty damn cute.
MikeWe said: Pretty damn cute.
Not.
Do I even want to install this update?
Pretty damn lame if you ask me.
While I care more about actual bug fixes, doing this is really, really petty on Corel's part.
I changed the registry. The desktop area is now a medium gray. Might make it a little lighter, but this was what I ended up with the first go 'round.
Hopefully someone just threw the wrong switch and it ended up being accidentally for Premies only. If not, I'll stick with it is a pretty damned lame, petty thing to do.
MikeWe said:Hopefully someone just threw the wrong switch and it ended up being accidentally for Premies only. If not, I'll stick with it is a pretty damned lame, petty thing to do.
Hear Hear!
At least in this instance, one can change it via the registry. Which means making it a premie only feature was half-baked anyway.
Mike
Premium membership to change UI color scheme??!!??...er....well...LMAO!
Well, suku, it is a new feature isn't it? Only premie members get new features during a release cycle.
If this wasn't so pathetic it really would be funny.
MikeWe said: Well, suku, it is a new feature isn't it? Only premie members get new features during a release cycle. If this wasn't so pathetic it really would be funny.
Mr Mike, talk to me chief. What part of the reg do I edit to change the desktop color?
Here's the standard disclaimer...edit the registry can have unintended consequences...do so at your own risk...
Start regedit.exe
You should probably back-up the Registry before going any further.
The location is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\CorelDRAW\17.0\Draw\Application Preferences\WindowScheme
Likely you could just do a search in the registry for:
PageMatColor
The color gray you see in my post above is the number: 14277081
Here's a way you can see the number needed for whatever color you want.
There is also a key named WindowBorderColor. Write down or copy the number that is there to a Notepad instance.
Have CD open as well. Go to the Global Options section. You can change the title bar color to what you would like the PageMatColor to be. Save the CD Options.
Now switch back the regedit. Press F5 to refresh the display (it actually should auto-refresh upon regaining focus). Now double-click the WindowBorderColor key. Copy the number. Cancel. Double-click the PageMatColor key. Paste the number in its value box. Click OK.
Now double-click on the WindowBorderColor key. Copy/Paste the former WindowBorderColor value back into the value box that you copied to Notepad.
Save. Exit and restart CD.
Again, edit the registry at your own risk...
Take care, Mike
Hi Mike
You are braver than we are I would never publish the registry stuff we do in case someone screwed up disclaimer or not the questions would be never ending.
Corel need to recognize they are one of the worst for releasing buggy software and just fix it, they lose users because of it would anyone become premium users to get what should be their to start with.
back up the registry to flash or cd
You have me thinking maybe we should release registry hacks and vba work arounds we have done as a fix it kit.
Ross Blair
@Ross--if I weren't so lazy I would have wrote a small executable. It would have been easier if I took the time to figure out what the numbers correspond to. Then I could have just made people a .reg file. Open it in Notepad, change the value, save it and double-click the .reg file and its done.
If I cared enough, I could easily write a small utility with all the settings that can be changed whether they were in the Options dialog or not. Combing through the registry to figure out all of them would be tedious, though.
A couple people actually did this for Xara products. Xara had settings they were not willing to put in the Options dialog. Been using this utility for years to make certain customizations in XDP.
Edit to add...
If they hadn't pissed me off I wouldn't have posted the reg key stuff. If I find other little pieces of crap, I might just write a config utility...
I also had to laugh at this one for premies only:
Something every other vector editing software has been able to do for, well, about forever. But hey, Corel can use it as a premie only update to justify charging more for something that is a standard feature elsewhere. For instance, I have used Xara Designer Pro for sometime. I cannot remember seeing this hide an object feature and saying, Wow! That's innovative!.
How much is premie membership again?
Ah well. Maybe we less fortunate (i.e., the unwilling to spend more for standard features) will be able to obtain such an advancement in UI design and functionality with X8.