# POSSIBLY SPAM #::Win vs Mac text hilite

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Mar 7 03:01:06 EST 2005


xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
 > On 07.03.2005 08:40:28 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
 >
 >> On Mac OS and OS X, hilited text in a field is drawn as
 >> normal, hilited with the hiliteColor.
 >>
 >> But on Windows, the hilitedColor is honored but the foreColor
 >> of the hilitedText is reversed.
 >>
 >> I have an app where the client would really like to use a
 >> yellow hilite, but with the inversion is becomes white when
 >> hilited, and against the yellow it's barely readable.
 >>
 >> Anyone know of a way to prevent the inversion of hilited text
 >> on Windows?
 >
 > No matter what you do, the text remains white.
 > This is not how Windows works (text remains black on yellow) so
 > it is a bug in rev...
 >
 > Tested on w2k, XP/W2K3...

What's the Bugzilla number? -- I'll add my vote...

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