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The 3270 Settings - Colors General Page

The Settings-Colors page is used to change the colors of your display screen and create color schemes that you can use with any session.

Table 12

Setting

Description

Scheme

Lists color schemes from which you can choose to apply to a session. The list includes those schemes provided by Extra! and the schemes you have created.

Save As button

Opens the Save As dialog box where you can save your current color settings to a scheme to be used later.

Delete button

Deletes the color scheme selected in the Scheme list box.

Host Monitor and Item List

Shows the display areas and colors that can be changed. Once you have selected an item on this list, or from the list box beneath it, and selected a new color from the Foreground or Background Color palette, that item displays in the new color.

Foreground Color/Background Color

Displays the color of the item currently selected on the "host monitor" graphic for the foreground and background of your display. Clicking the Foreground or Background box (depending on what you want to change) displays a small color palette from which you can select a different color, or create a custom color.

Color Mode

Lists the color options for mapping display colors for protected and unprotected host fields.

Always 2-Color

Maps colors to protected and unprotected host field attributes.

2 or 4-Color

Choose this option to have the host determine the host field attributes available to the user for color mapping, either two or four colors.

Always 4-Color

Maps colors to protected normal, protected high, unprotected normal, and unprotected high host field attributes.

Use Terminal-Style Cursor Color

When selected, the cursor color setting does not appear in either the monitor control or the corresponding combo box, and the (full/half) block cursor color is determined by swapping the foreground and background colors of the current cursor location (for example, if the cursor is currently green-on-black, it will become black-on-green).

NOTE:The underline cursor will always be black-on-white, unless the background color at the current location is white, in which case the underline cursor will be white-on-black.

NOTE:A host application designates fields as protected or unprotected. Protected fields are those in which the user may not enter data; unprotected fields are designed for user input. These fields can be either normal (for example, white on black) or high (for example, shock neon orange on black).

To change 3270 host screen colors

  1. From the Options menu, choose Settings.

  2. From the Categories list, choose Colors.

  3. On the General page, from either the host monitor or the drop-down list beneath it, select the display area or color you want to change.

  4. Select the Foreground Color or Background Color (depending on what you are changing).

    A small color palette displays from which you can select a new color.