New colour discovered: orqbge?

[Yates, Glen]

This phenomenon is most likely attributed to MC using an uninitiallized
variable, see when you set the color to some unknown value it probably never
actually stores that bad value, but instead uses whatever garbage was in the
color variable. As Windows systems seem to be more likely to have their
memory and variables zeroed out (especially when running under the debugger
in DevStudio), then that would explain the black color on those systems, and
random colors on other systems.

-Glen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Landman Gay [mailto:jacque at hyperactivesw.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:59 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: New colour discovered: orqbge?
> 
> 
> On 4/7/03 1:20 PM, david wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure what's happening with this colour on the Mac - 
> PC's go black I
> > think, but while I got a really nice mauvy / purple last 
> week - I get yucky
> > green now. Bit disappointing - never liked green. On the 
> other hand if
> > orqbge changes with time I'm really excited.
> 
> FWIW: I got the same green when I tried it. However, I also 
> got the same 
> green when I typed "set the backdrop to xyz". So it looks like any 
> sequence of letters that isn't a predefined color will give you a 
> "default" color, which in this case is green. Or, since you 
> got a purple 
> last week, perhaps the color is based on some semi-random 
> color assignment.
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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