Colour

The colouring facility within the Map Editor allows maps and controls to be coloured to suit your user interface conventions, whatever they may be. It does this by allowing controls to share Colour Schemes . On the Windows platforms the default colour schemes match the usual Windows User Interface conventions.

The Map Editor's colouring facility has two main components:

At least one colour scheme is provided for each control type. Using the colour scheme editor, you can create any colour schemes you like, either completely from scratch or if just a little customisation of an existing scheme is required, you can use that as the basis for a new scheme.

Selecting a Control's Colour Scheme

Assuming that more than the default colour scheme is available for the control, to select a different colour scheme for it:

  1. In the Control's property dialog, click the Colour tab; the Colour property dialog appears

  2. In the Colour Scheme list, select the desired colour scheme. Click OK to return to the Editing Window

To create or edit new colour schemes for a control select the control and then press F7 or select Colour Scheme Editor from the options menu to open the Colour Scheme Editor .