pink Answer dog

[jameshale]

using LC 9.6.9 on Mac Ventura and I notice when I build my standalone my Answer dlogs are pink.

is this a Ventura thing?

[LCMark]

@jameshale: That is most strange!

If you have 9.6.8 (or 9.6.7) to hand - can you see if you get the same problem there? Does your standalone main stack have a pink background color (and therefore it could be an inheritence issue - answer dialog is made a substack of the main stack when standalones are built).

[jameshale]

@LCMark, pink persists in 9.6.8 I have archived earlier releases.
Background colour??
Hmm not aware that I have set this pink anywhere......
EGAD!! I do set the stack's backgroundcolor, and set it to PINK!

Set it to empty and dlog back to normal.
Thanks for the help Mark.

[FourthWorld]

Most of my projects have a substack called "RSRC" (intentionally ugly name to remind me it's not user-facing) where I store images for icons and stuff like that.

In that stack I usually set the bgColor to fuscia so any alpha channels are immediately evident.

Maybe you'd done something like that and just forgot to set it back?

[jameshale]

If only I was so practical

[FourthWorld]

If only I was so practical

a Fun with Fuscia story:

My first Mac was an SE30, and although it was color-capable I didn't have an external monitor, so I did everything on the built-in 512x342 B&W display.

When I shipped my first product, it looked good in B&W and I felt comfortable putting it out the door. Sales came in, folks seemed happy.

Years later I was talking with a friend about that first product. It seems somewhere along the line I had set the line color in my logo to fuscia, giving in an almost psychedelic look. Of course on my screen the lines looked black, but everyone with a color monitor saw it in dayglo. My friend said, "It's not a color I would have chosen, but I thought it was something you'd meant to do, like some sort of punk statement or something."

[jameshale]