PopColours 1.3 - September 1987

PopColours lets you change the Red/Green/Blue components of any colour
register, on any screen currently in the system.

PopColours has two modes - a large working window and a tiny window for when
the program is not in use. Switch between the two modes with the toggle
switch gadget. PopColours also supports Transactor's TWM standard for tiny
windows, so the tiny window rendering may not necessarily be used.

The PopColours working window has three proportional colour gadgets on its
instrument panel. These affect the colour of
the indicated colour register. To modify a colour register other than the
one currently selected, use the up and down arrows on the
right of the control panel. When the colour register value gets to the
highest colour register available in the screen, it next goes back to zero.
You can hold the arrows down and they will auto-repeat. when modifying the
colour of the WorkBench screen, a square is drawn next to the colour register
indicator in the colour that's being changed (the current colour register).

The "TOP SCREEN" message is both an indicator and a gadget. It indicates what
screen you are changing the colours of, and lets you select either the
topmost or the second screen. For example, if you started a task that opened
a new screen, then slid the screen down partially, revealing the WorkBench
screen, playing with PopColours would change the colours of the new, top
screen, not the WorkBench screen. This way you can modify the colours of just
about ANY program. With your new screen in place, you can click on the "TOP
SCREEN" message; it will switch to "SECOND SCREEN". This choice allows you to
change the colours of a non-slidable screen (like TextCraft): use left-Amiga
'N' to bring the WorkBench screen to the front, then slide it partially down
to see the other screen, and set PopColours to "SECOND SCREEN" mode. You can
then muck about with the colours of a program that doesn't give you the
option to do so. The poor program doesn't know what's going on! If you click
on "TOP SCREEN" when there isn't another screen, the message "(no 2nd screen)"
will appear for an instant, then "TOP SCREEN" will re-appear.

PopColours was written by Chris Zamara and Nick Sullivan.
(c) 1986, 1987 Transactor Publishing Inc.
and AHA! (Acme Heuristic Applications!).
Freely distributable.