High Contrast mode for Aven?

[Imperial College Caving Club]

Ah hah!

After getting the latest SVN version of Aven compiling on Ubuntu
(necessary to custom install wxwidgets in non-unicode form, as pointed
out by David Riggs earlier this month), I noticed in guicontrol.cc,
that if you select an already selected colouring method, it acts as a
toggle button which drops down to 'COLOUR_BY_NONE' which is pure
White-on-Black.

I wouldn't have expected gui behaviour like this without reading the source.

So this is 90% of the functionality useful on a B/W device, though I
still think an inverted mode would be event better, though would
require flipping the background... (wxSYS_COLOUR_WINDOWFRAME ???)

Best,

Jarv

2009/2/17 Imperial College Caving Club <ic.caving at gmail.com>:
> Dear Survex'ers,
>
> I run Survex/Aven on an OLPC XO laptop (now running Ubuntu), and it
> runs beautifully.
>
> The only slight issue is that the aven screen is very difficult to
> read in the high resolution (sunlight readable) greyscale mode of the
> display.
>
> How much difficulty would there be to hack the choice of colours for
> the centreline?
>
> I vaguely recall running a CVS version many moons ago that had more
> control over the 'colour by depth'...
>
> Might this be useful functionality for anyone else?
> An option to go to pastel shades rather than fully saturated, or to
> invert the whole display might be nice...
>
> Best,
>
> Jarv
>
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