Console background color / e.g. Okami-shell or file preview

[twh]

Hi there,

can I somehow configure the Atari ST / text mode colors in med-resolution ?

For instance I want to change the console background color for the Okami-shell. So instead white background, black text, I would prefer black background with light/blue text. (MS DOS like).

I know this color settings somehow relate to the desktop colors. But can I be independent, say desktop stay as it is, but just text mode is different?
(e.g. to show / display text files)

grüße,
\thomas

[simonsunnyboy]

No as the ST has no text mode. You can only set the global colors on the desktop and any application may change them to their own liking.

[ThorstenOtto]

No as the ST has no text mode. You can only set the global colors on the desktop and any application may change them to their own liking.

What makes you think so? Every *.ttp/*.tos program is run in text mode (internally not the same as in msdos, but for the user it looks the same).

You can try to echo out the control sequences to set the fore/background colors of the VT52 terminal somewhere in your startup script.

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ESC b <c> 	Foreground color 	Set text color.
ESC c <c> 	Background color 	Set background color.

(see https://freemint.github.io/tos.hyp/en/V ... minal.html)

But dunno if that works. Sometimes the shell might reset that to defaults, when printing the prompt.

[simonsunnyboy]

Well the actual display is always bitmapped, TOS output routines handle it as a pseudo text terminal, true.
With the VT52 sequences, from my experience, it may be necessary to clear the screen first.

And with changing colors I assumed the OP meant the RGB definition (as this is what the Control Panel does). IIRC the VT52 does not allow that.

[mfro]

... to my large astonishment, Wikipedia knows about the VT52 command set and about the TOS extensions/omissions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT52#Escape_sequences

[ThorstenOtto]

And with changing colors I assumed the OP meant the RGB definition (as this is what the Control Panel does). IIRC the VT52 does not allow that.

No, VT52 does not allow that, but doing so would change the colors also in the desktop, not only the console/textmode. I think he just meant changing back/foreground colors that are used when printing text.