How to change color scheme

Use this screen to change the color scheme of all screens in the system. Five preset color schemes are always available to restore the color scheme. Also, if a different color scheme is to be used by your organization, the color values can be written down and manually restored if necessary.

Clicking one of the color buttons displays the following screen.

Pick a Color

This screen has three ways to pick a color. This is the swatches option. Others are shown below.

HSB option

RGB option. Use one of these options to pick a color. Click the "OK" button to change the color of the original selection in the color screen.

To demonstrate, the original category screen is shown below. Then the color of the background is changed and displayed. Another color is selected and finally the original color is restored

Example

The original category screen.

Click the "Screen Background" button to display the following screen.

Make a color selection and click the "OK" button. The next time a screen is opened it will have the color that was selected.

One try.

Another try.

If you want to save that color, click the save button and make changes to another screen component if desired. Continue to make changes until you are satisfied with the color then click the save button to set the color of that component and move on to the next component.

If you change the colors and want to make sure you can restore them, copy the values from the RGB color picker for each component and put them in a safe place. They can be used to manually restore the colors by copying them into the fields on the RGB color picker. When restored, click the "Save" button

Set Gray Color Scheme

Screen colors when the "Set Gray" button is pressed.

Set Dark Gray Color Scheme

Screen colors when the "Set Dark Gray" button is pressed.

Set Blue Color Scheme

Screen colors when "Set Blue" button is pressed.

Set Tan Color Scheme

Screen colors when the "Set Tan" button is pressed.

Set Brown Color Scheme

Screen colors when "Set Brown" is clicked.

Buttons

Close - Closes the screen

Set Gray - Sets the preset gray color for all screens.

Set Dark Gray - Sets the preset dark gray color for all screens.

Set Tan - Sets the preset tan color for all screens.

Set Blue: Sets the preset blue color for all screens.

Set Brown: Sets the preset brown color for all screens.

Restore - Restores the previously saved colors.

Save - Saves the current state of colors.

Colors can be set and screens tested without saving. Once a color looks good, it can be saved. Then when the "Restore" button is clicked the saved colors are restored. If you want to restore your own colors, follow instructions outlined previously.