When I DJ with the empeg, I often have emplode taking up the whole screen during my searches. Usually that means most of my screen is a glaring white while I'm in a dark club or theater. Is there anyway to specify that the background is grey or something?

Is there anyway to specify that the background is grey or something?

In Windows Control Panel? Emplode just uses the standard system colour AFAIR. This is IMO the Right Thing, as you only have to fix it once for it to affect any application with a maximised window.

Having said that, I'm not actually near a Windows machine to check whether it works -- if there isn't anything you can change in Control Panel to change Emplode's colouring, that's a bug.

Peter

Nope. It doesn't seem to change the colour in the list view when I change the Windows settings. I could be doing the wrong one though. I'm assuming you're hardcoded the green bit? [edit]Had that it didn't do the white bit at first which is wrong..[/edit]

Speaking of which. I was looking in the Emplode binary with ResHacker to replace the icon with a higher resolution one and there's a dialog box with this:

"Are you sure you want to frobnicate '%1'?"
"Checking this will also twiddle this item"

Also somebody likes listening to Domino Dancing by the Pet Shop Boys...

- Trevor

Atleast under Windows XP, the color you want is called Window in the appearance dialog (under display settings). It will have a foreground color (black) and a background color (white). Setting the background color should change the white coloring you see in Emplode.

If emplode behaves the way I think it does, then the player you've connected to has it's own window inside emplode. This means that changing the color of the item "Window" in the Appearance tab of Display Properties will not change that white background to something else. Instead, the initial background you see before you connect to a player, when the dialog box is searching, is the color that would be changed.

Of course, not having a copy of emplode on this machine here at work means I could totally be pulling this from between my toes.

Edit: BTW, the Window property doesn't have a foreground and background color, just color for the window (default white) and color for the text displayed in the window (default black).

I saw this and immediately thought "wow, it will change my lens for me?"

Ok, I prefaced what I said with 'on windows XP'. Now, unless you have XP, then it might mean that things operate differently. On my machine, if I change the background for 'Window', it works. Trust me, I am not pulling it from my toes as it were.. I even made sure to connect to my Empeg, and while looking at the listing of albums etc, in the List mode. The color of the background before you connect to an Empeg is actually the background color of '3D Objects'. This is also something that I've actually tested, so I am not stating anything that might be conjecture.

Gee, thanks. I give an obvious disclalimer that I'm working from memory, and I get yelled at anyway. I didn't bitch at you for using the latest installment in a crappy series of OSes, did I?

Nah, but you did say that I was wrong. Why you would do so from memory is beyond me.

Edit: I've also tested this in Win2k, the second last in line of crappy OSes..

Um, guys... there's a FAQ entry on this. There are two background colors, one of which is in fact the window background color as defined in your global Windows settings. For instance, on my system, that color is a light gray shade, and the background of the emplode window is that shade. You can see this in many of the emplode screen shots that are in the FAQ. The other background color is alternate rows in "view/detail" mode, and it's the subject of that FAQ entry.

Why you would do so from memory is beyond me.

It's beyond you because I didn't say "You are wrong." And my post did contain a disclaimer in case I was wrong. So, your apparent attitude about it is unneeded and unappreciated.

I'm sorry. I was wrong. Please forgive me, O Almighty Master of the Windows Dispaly Properties dialog box.

Geesh.. I think it's you who has the attitude. I said what the settings were under XP, and you said:

"This means that changing the color of the item "Window" in the Appearance tab of Display Properties will not change that white background to something else.

I didn't have an attitude, I just stated that I had in fact tested it out and not pulled it from somewhere. If having an attitude is stating that what I posted was factual then sorry I tried to help out. If I should have simply made guesses first, and then complained when someone pointed out my error, I stand corrected.

[censored] you. I apologized, even if it was with a joke. [censored] let it go already.

You should both come to Amersfoort. We can set up a fist fight, and give out some merchandise to the winner. It'll be fun.

Sure fine, it's let go. Apoloogy accepted.

Group hug.

Great idea Rob. Now I've just got to find the wimpiest member of the BBS so I can go pick on him

Now I've just got to find the wimpiest member of the BBS so I can go pick on him

/me hides...

I'm not kidding. I was at an arcade with my daughter last night, and they had a mo-cap boxing game. I thought the concept looked really cool, you picked up some VR boxing gloves, and there was some kind of an infrared mo-cap array above your head. It was like playing the old "Punch-Out" arcade game, except instead of pressing Dodge and Punch buttons, you actually dodge by moving your body and punch by punching into the air at your virtual opponent on the screen.

I thought, "whoa, this looks like fun, what a great concept" and tried it out. I figured... I'm a pretty big guy, I can handle a few rounds of pantomime boxing.

Well, turns out that those VR boxing gloves were essentially 5-pound weights with handles. And the software is coded so that just when you're really tired out, it makes you do a bunch of really fast combo punches. By the end of the first opponent, I was extremely winded, and by the time the second opponent kicked my ass, I was practically collapsed and completely out of breath. I've never gone from "Macho" to "Wussy" so fast in my life.

Later, I was informed that the punches are not velocity sensitive. I didn't need to be throwning my arms out in front of me to their full reach like I was. I just needed to waggle the little weights in the air in front of me and it would have had the same effect. Hmph.

Oh yeah. And my daughter said she felt sorry for me.