A New Year - A New Display!

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

I've had the same settings for my Eclipse display for two years, and I need a change. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Currently, my background is a pale pink, my text is black, untrans are yellow, conficts are navy, Q's are green, A's are purple, and I'm tired of them all! Any ideas?

[Brenda Rogers]

I took Debi's suggestion of navy background and yellow text which looks gold against the navy. I have Easter egg colors beyond that with *my* pink conflicts.

[dms]

Brenda beat me to it : ) I was going to suggest you go with the navy background and yellow/gold text. It's *really* easy on the eyes (supposedly, someone did some studies and found that color combination to be best for avoiding/minimizing eyestrain). I know it works very well for me. I find that white background with black text to be especially hard on my eyes after a couple of hours. My untrans are white background/green text, conflicts are white background/blue text, comment lines are dark pink, by lines are light green, questions are aqua and answers are light purple. I *like* color! : )

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

Okay, Debi, I'm going to give it a try right now. I may report back and tell you what I think later. Thanks!

[dms]

Oh, yes, please do report back. I'd be curious to know how you like it.

[Brenda Rogers]

Oh, I don't do different backgrounds for my untrans or conflicts. Only for comment lines -- teal on green -- and fill-in fields -- aqua on purple. Do you prefer the untrans and such blocked with a background color? I changed that when I first got my program.

I have light blue for typed-in text, different color for each speaker, lavender Qs, lime green As, orange punctuation, green conflicts -- different greens for different conflict selections -- a purply pink for by-lines. I have several custom colors.

I like color too. :)

[dms]

Yeah, for me as a scopist, seeing the untrans jump out at me tells me very quickly if I've got a well-written (or at least well-cleaned-up) transcript or one that's going to take a lot of extra work, then I can budget my time accordingly.

I forgot to add that my typed text is lavender and text typed by the reporter is white.

Have you noticed that the blue/yellow combination is any easier on your eyes?

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

I've been playing with my colors nonstop! I can't believe I didn't know about - or had forgotten - that the notebar was completely customizable! Debi, I'm glad you suggested white for the typed-in text. I was stuck for a good color on that one. The only background color difference I've got now is the untran. I'm loving my notebar changes as I can tell so easily now when I've deleted something or when I'm fooling around with the realtime macros. I've got one more job to edit so I'll let you know more after I've spent some time looking at my new display. I think I'm going to like it. Change is good!

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

[Lisa Moskowitz]

I'm trying to play around with my colors too, and right off the bat I'm having trouble, LOL! I want to see what the blue background/yellow text looks like, and I can't get the background to change to blue. On normal text I select the yellow for the foreground and blue for background, and only the text changes to yellow. The background stays white. Am I making changes in the wrong place?

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

Lisa, Try fooling with the text box and page background colors. I honestly don't know the best way to go about changing this. I should get myself over to the 4thTutor and watch a visualizer!

[Lisa Moskowitz]

I feel really stupid, but where is that in the user settings? It's obviously been forever since I tried changing colors.

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

Lisa, User settings/Display and click in the dropdown box!!! See, that's the beauty of these forums! I hope more Eclipse users will pop in.