ORCAD background color change
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From: John Fields on 12 Feb 2010 16:21 OK, dammit, I'm stuck... I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it works great. But... While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. I'd like to change it to white. Clue, please? JF
From: Jim Thompson on 12 Feb 2010 16:36 On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:21:45 -0600, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >OK, dammit, I'm stuck... > >I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it >works great. > >But... > >While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, >the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. > >I'd like to change it to white. > >Clue, please? > >JF I'm pretty sure that it can be done, but I last used SDT about 20 years ago. :-) I have a copy on this machine, only to use the templates and symbol libraries, to do conversions of old SDT stuff to PSpice Schematics. Aren't all the colors in an CFG file? It's coming back :-) Use GENDRIVE.EXE to roll your own video driver. ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
From: Joerg on 12 Feb 2010 16:46 John Fields wrote: > OK, dammit, I'm stuck... > > I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it > works great. > > But... > > While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, > the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. > > I'd like to change it to white. > > Clue, please? > Strictly from memory, way back: IIRC the only way one could change the background color on SDT was to muck with the table stored in the graphics card. But having anything other than black was frowned upon by Orcadians back then, right up there with parking a Harley next to a Goldwing ;-) I don't know if this is still possible in a DOS window. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: MooseFET on 12 Feb 2010 21:49 On Feb 12, 1:21 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > OK, dammit, I'm stuck... > > I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it > works great. > > But... > > While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, > the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. > > I'd like to change it to white. > > Clue, please? > I just looked in the ESP version and there is no background color setting. I don't have a working copy of the pre ESP version to check.
From: AwlSome Auger on 12 Feb 2010 23:53
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:21:45 -0600, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >OK, dammit, I'm stuck... > >I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it >works great. > >But... > >While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, >the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. > >I'd like to change it to white. > >Clue, please? > >JF There was nothing when executed with "Orcad.exe -c"? That should bring up the config menu selections, but I do not know if that is where it is at either. I'll fire it up and check a bit. |