Interface Colors During Error Report

[sandman]

Gentlemen,

If you have a spare moment, I have a settings question. I have my geometry background set to black, and whenever wings crashes "gracefully" (crashes without freezing, just writes a log and tells me) I get an entirely black screen because I have black text and it puts it on a black background. Attached is my preference file so you can see the colors and theme I am using. I would be curious what to do in order to keep my black background while working but still be able to read the crash dialogue. Thanks for your time.

On a side note, some of the themes have transparency of the windows- is there a way to turn that off?

Thanks.

[Fonte Boa]

Edit your preferences.txt and change the line #3 from
{background_color,{0.0,0.0,0.0}}.
to
{background_color,{0.45,0.45,0.45}}.

This will reset background colour to default.

Or do it manually by Edit|Preferences|User Interface, clicking in Desktop/Geometry Background colour and changing RGB slots to any other colour.

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About transparency of windows background colours, you can set it at Edit|Preferences|User Interface, clicking in Dialog Background and set "A" value (Alpha) to 1, to eliminate the transparency. But at the appended preferences.txt there is no settings determining this.

EDIT:
Solved?!

[sandman]

Hi Fonte Boa,

Thank you very much for the help with the transparency- that was driving me nuts not realizing that there was an alpha channel on some of the color options- I was looking for a checkbox somewhere.

Unfortunately, for the background color I am wanting to keep a black background. The issue is that when Wings throws an error, it uses the background color as the background for the error message but it uses the black text from my menu colors. I am now setting the menus to have a black background with white text and will see if it uses that instead.

It just seems like the crash background and text should be selected from the same group of colors (menu, or console, or whatever as long as they're consistent) in order to avoid this sort of behavior.