System Color is Wrong

I just did a fresh install of OS X and Finder's color is really off.
Take a look at this:
http://www.vortexmud.com/color.png
Does anyone have any clue what's going on or how to fix this?

You probably don't have the same profile chosen for the monitor that you did before. Open the System Preferences and click on Displays. Click the Color tab. Choose a different profile at the left and compare the difference.

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System colors definitely wrong

I bought a MacBook Pro yesterday (2.8 GHz, OS X 10.6 [why not 10.6.3? I guess Best Buy has old Mac in their warehouse: not nice]) and migrated my entire PowerBook G4 to it via Firewire. 61 gigs later, as I cast my undeserving eyes upon my beautiful new screen, I noticed that the colors and tones of my desktop picture were kind of different. Then I noticed that the un-visited links on webpages looked, not quite blue, but rather an intense darkish blue-purple. Then I noticed that some pages containing flash applications have rather intense, offish colors to them. I've been using Mac laptops since the first 180
Did I get a defective display?
Or is it that the migration assistant imported some settings belonging to the PowerBook G4 and it messed up the system colors in the MacBook Pro?
Any opinions would be appreciated.

Scott:
Thanks so very much for the help. I had attempted calibration, but not with expert mode. But now I did it and it definitely looks better now, though I think there's still some tweaking to do.
I lost a sentence in my original post: I have used color mac laptops since the 180c, and I do notice a big difference.
It might be that I'm not used to the brilliance of the new LCD, but I do know that the colors are wrong. And I do believe, after much thinking, that it had to do with the settings being messed up with Migration, since it copied my entire old PowerBook, settings included, to the MacBook Pro. Perhaps they should warn you about that when you migrate.
I'll mark the question as answered, since it seems to have had an effect, but I'm unhappy about Apple not letting you know that such things can go so wrong in Migration.
I'll keep trying to calibrate...
Thanks so very much for your help and time,
Saúl
PS: I couldn't figure out how to attach a pic here. Sorry.
S.

All system colors completely wrong!

I have no idea what could have caused this, but I have restarted my Mac mini several times today, and it has now changed all the colors--of everything, including the beachball. At first everything had a very heavy overlay of green, and then I tried switching display resolutions, at which point it all turned kind of gray, and reverted to an old Apple wallpaper that I haven't ever even used on this machine.
I don't know what could have caused this. The only new thing I've done is install Airport Express setup software, and I don't know why it would have done this. I've done everything I can think of, including restoring from Time Machine to a backup from this morning, before it happened, and it's not going away. Help???

New info: it all went back to normal when I unplugged the Åirport Express. What's weird is that it wasn't connected to anything other than an electric plug: not the computer, not Wi-Fi, not anything else, just electricity, so I'm not sure how this could affect the display...

System Colors in Color Box Constant

Hi,
I want to know how LabVIEW handles the values of system colors in case of a system change. For example:
I develop a VI on "System A" and choose the system color "Window" in the Color Box Constant. Now I run the VI on another "System B".
Retrieves LabVIEW now the system color "Window of "System B" or retrieves LabVIEW a fixed value from moment of development on "System A"?
Kind regards
Christian
Test Engineering
digades GmbH
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

It uses whatever colors are the system colors for the machine it is actually running on. So it would uses the colors from system B.
Likewise for fonts. If you uses any of the symbolic fonts like dialog, application, ... and they are tied back to the system fonts of dialog, application, menu (I might have those names wrong or mixed up) by way of LabVIEW's or the exe's "app" .ini file, it will use whatever the Windows fonts are. This can cause problems for an application where the front panel was sized based on an older OS where the system fonts were different and smaller when the app gets run on a newer OS such as Win7 where the font is something else, but also larger by a point or two.

HP Photosmart 7200 Colors are Wrong When Printing on Photo Paper

I'm running Windows 7 and am having a problem when printing on photo paper. The colors are off; mainly green. The colors are fine when printing on plain paper. I have tried printing from my computer as well as straight from the media card. Same result. I am also using HP Photo Premium glossy paper. Print cartridges are brand new and are loaded correctly.
Any solutions or troubleshooting tips I can try?

Hi @Vay725,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand that the colors are wrong when printing on photo paper! I am happy to help you with this print quality issue!
For further assistance, I will need to know some more information:
The Product/Model Number of your printer. Follow instructions in this link. Finding Your HP Product Model Number.
If you are using a Windows or Mac Operating System, and the version number. To find the exact version, visit this link. Whatsmyos.
If the printer is connected, Wireless, or USB.
If the printer is able to make copies.
If the power cable is plugged into a surge protector, or directly to the wall outlet. Issues when Connected to an Uninterruptible Power Supply/Power Strip/Surge Protector. This applies to Inkjet printers as well.
If you are using Genuine HP Ink cartridges.
Thank you for posting, and have a nice day!
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How to determine the system color and set them for my app?

Hi,
I'd like to set the colors of my application to the system's colors. Especially the backgrounds of my JPanels, JButtons and so on should look like in the operating system. If you change the systems color scheme, my application looks really wierd with it's grey canvas an components and the border and menu of the window is displayed in the system's colors.
any idea??
koem

The UIManager only seems to have control over
awt-controls. All swing controls are not listed, when
you try this:
UIDefaults defaults =
UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults();
for(Iterator i = defaults.keySet().iterator();
ator(); i.hasNext();)
String name = (String)i.next();
System.out.println(name);
}It would be nice to have it set globally somewhere in
the program.
koemActually, the truth is quite the opposite, the UIManager only has control over swing components.
There are many ways you can set these globally. You can sublcass your own look and feel, use the system look and feel, call UIDefaults.put() etc.
Graeme

Firefox 3.6.13 would not load under xp on acer computer. deleted in and downloaded version 4, but still does not load, just hangs system. what is wrong?

a couple weeks ago, firefox stopped loading (just hung system) on my acer computer running windows xp. I deleted firefox and downloaded versin 4.0.1. But, the same thing is happening. it starts to load but then stops responding and hangs the system. what is wrong?

I also have this problem and it just started in the last week or so. It seems to be dependent on my home network and the problem only exists with firefox. I have used chrome and IE8 with no issues. I can verify tomorrow that it only exists in my network but one thing I was able to test is that the problem exists even on my linux boot. I am totally dumbfounded with this problem and I can't find anything that will allow the gmail page to load. All other pages I have tried load fine, all be it a little slower than normal but they load. If anyone knows of a difference between firefox and all other browsers on how it goes through the router I would appreciate the info cause I don't know of any differences.

System colors do not give correct RGB values

When using the IMAQ integer to color value function, I get correct RGB values for colors chosen via a color box control - except if the colors are selected from the “system colors”. Is this supposed to happen? The RGB values for the system "White" is: 0, 0, 9.
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That function does look at the most significant byte. Try wiring the system color to a "Split Number" (numerics "Dat manipulation) to split the I32 to two I16 and then again to get four I8s.
You will find that the "other" bytes has a "1".
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System colors in Java

I am working in a Java Swing Project. Here I have to set some System colors like Window Background, Button Face etc to the controls. I also need the way to set the color to be Transparent.
Plz help me soon.
Anila.

Take a look at UIManager.
You can write yourself a little loop to dump out all of the system defaults which are accessible via UIManager.get*() and adjustable via UIManager.put().
If you want to adjust individual components then use their set() methods.

Highlight colors change (invert) on some backgrounds, i can make it back by changing use system colors and or background color, i would like to knoe if there is a setting to stop the change ?

i set my highlight colors to yellow background and black foreground in windows , it uses the same colors in firefox except as i highlight over some colors the foreground and background colors invert yellow on black , if there is a setting (or one can be added) in about:config to make the highlight always stay as yellow back and black foreground ? , im not sure if it is done within firefox though or if it is win xp but itcan be changed inside firefox about:config with browser.display.use_system_colors and/or browser.display.background_color .

that sort of makes sense but when you look at youtube messages , each alternate line is a very pale blue and when highlighted each alternate line the color is switched , this also happens on all web pages with simuler shading (not just pale blue) .
about the purple highlighting , ive never seen that , i have firefox on 2 PCs , a laptop and a notepad and they all use the colors set in win xp for highlight , even when use system colors is set to false , all that happens then is they swap about (invert) agen , i some times have to switch browser background color as well . sorry for being repetetive , im just trying to be clear , i have tried fine tuning BG color but on some pages just 1 single number away from white makes the switch,on other pages you can go nearly all the way to black befor it switches .ive just seen add images , ill send some pics to show what im trying to say .

My iPad2 colors are wrong. Has anyone had this problem?

My iPad 2 colors are wrong. Has anyone had this problem?

Could you provide some more details please. Where are the colors wrong? i.e. What application?
As a first pass to fix you could try a reset. Press and hold the Home and On/Off buttons simultaneously until you see the Apple logo. This may take up to around 10 seconds and is the equivalent of a PC re-boot. You will not lose any data.

LabView and System Colors

Hi everyone
I am currently developing some small application in LabView 8.0.1. Until now, I've always used the default colors. I usually develop either in MFC (C++) oder .NET (C#). I am completely used to the standard color scheme of Windows - that light grey.
I want to achieve, that my applications look like they were coded in some of the other languages. LabView usually gives me quite a dark grey, which is ... not exactely beautiful and doesn't fit to all the other applications (it's darker).
Is there some way, I can make my application look like some C# Application? Do I have to set the colors manually or can I tell LabView to use Windows' colors.
Thanks, for your help.
Thomas Linder

Somnatic wrote:
Concerning playing around: Why should someone do this. If they mess it up, they need to call us, which means money. You can almost mis-use any application if you're just willing to, so I don't see why I should pay extra care to that.
The thing is that they might not mess "it" up, but something seemingly unrelated like the system colors or fonts, which might be hard to troubleshoot. I agree that normally users don't play around with this, but you should hope not to run into this in a case where they do. Anyway, as long as you're using only standard dialog controls, colors and fonts you should be alright.
As for the dialog, LV has its own dialog because of its multi platform support and the need to be able to provide the same functionality and configurability in all platforms. You can make a call to a windows API function to get this dialog, as shown in the attached.
Note - you can easily get more functionality out of this (look at the link), but I did not write this, and I haven't had use for it yet, I haven't modified it.
Try to take over the world!
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Browse_Folders.vi ‏25 KB

When printing a VI as a PDF on MacOS that has system controls, the system color turns into a nasty yellow

The subject line says it all. Happens on multiple Macs--in fact, the problem was reported by a customer. When printing on a Mac, one of the options available instead of sending the output to a printer is to create a PDF file. For some reason, the system color is substituted with yellow. It also happens when saving a postscript file.
There is no code in this VI and it wasn't running, but the same problem happens with my built application.
How do I get out of this mess? I am using LabVIEW 2010. I have a huge UI with system colors used throughout.
Thanks

Hello travispape:
This particular issue has been reported to R&D; they are working on it. At this time, we have no target date as to when it will be fixed.
Kevin R.

System colors override

Greetings,
I would like to override the conform to system colors attribute on a panel for a single control on a panel
Essentially i need to make one control the BRB (big red button).
However, if I try to make it red I have to uncheck conform to system colors which leads to other problems.
The reason that I want to do this on the source panel is because when I use the SetCtrlAttribute function to change the color, sometimes the color changes back to the standard gray.
There is no place in my code where a color is changed to gray on any other SetCtrlAttribute function call.
That leads me to believe that I am not inadvertantly changing the color back by having a bug with either an incorrect panel handle or control number.
So I assume that CVI is just changing the color back to the source color on its own.
Does anyone know a way of doing this?
Thanks

You can override system setting for individual controls by calling SetCtrlAttribute with ATTR_DISABLE_PANEL_THEME attribute: see here. Next you can set the button color with ATTR_CMD_BUTTON_COLOR attribute.
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System Color Corruption

Not sure what happened, but the OS X system colorpicker seems to have become corrupted. I can't get select red. Whenever I try to choose red from the color picker, the color selected is orange.
Please see this screenshot to see what I'm talking about - http://www.hallnet.com/temp/RedProblem.jpeg.
The screenshot shows the ColorJack web site in Safari with a color wheel with red (R:255, G:0. B:0) selected, Textedit with the system color picker and red selected, but orange in the color picker box, and the DigitalColor Meter showing that the color in the system color picker box is actually orange and not a result of aberrant monitor behavior.
I've tried logging in as a different user, but I still get the same problem.
I've tested a few applications to se if the effect on color is universal. Most display the problem as soon as I try to pick a color, but PhotoShop CS3 does display true red.
This problem started happening after using an application called Art Text.
I'm running Leopard 10.5.1 on an Intel Mac mini.
Any ideas?

Hi Honolulu,
I'm not sure I fully understand your post. Are you saying that you also cannot get red (255:0:0) on your Leopard and Tiger machines? And that that is OK?
FYI, I just tried this test on my MBP: Open TextEdit; Type in some text and then select it; apple-T to bring up the Font window; select Maraschino from the color picker Crayola crayons tab; open DigitalColor Meter and mouse over the text in TextEdit to see what the color really is. On my MBP, Maraschino is R:252, G:12, B:13. It's not pure red but it looks a lot redder than on my Mac mini, where the same test gives R:222, G:42, B:0 which is orange.
Also, surely it doesn't matter what you do with color correction. That is only affecting how the color is presented on the monitor. The base color red should still be 255:0:0 in DigitalColor Meter, even if it looks orange on the monitor.

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