DRO color help?

[stevehuck]

I am trying to change color of the dro's. I copied the reddro.png file into the wizard's "bitmap" folder. I then changed the text to black and the dro to white. In machscreen the dros look great but when I run the wizard in mach the dros are just white with black.

Is there a setting in mach that i'm missing? 

[ger21]

Did you click on the colored box to set the color?

[stevehuck]

Yes I did

Set the dro color to white
Set text color to black
Image path set to redDRO.png

Like I said, in machscreen it looks great. When I load the wizard in mach it's like the image is missing.

[ger21]

What's the full path? It should work.

[stevehuck]

What's the full path? It should work.

G:\Mach3\TurnAddons\PenMaker\Bitmaps\RedDRO.png

[ger21]

I don't have an answer. If I create a new screen with a single DRO, it works fine. But, it's not a turn wizard.

[stevehuck]

I don't have an answer. If I create a new screen with a single DRO, it works fine. But, it's not a turn wizard.

Maybe it wont work in Turn. I did the same thing with the new screen and it wouldn't work in turn or mach mill but the 1024 screen has green dro's  greendro.png

[stevehuck]

Works on everybody's machine but mine.

Is there a way to shift the numbers in the DRO to the left a little bit? The numbers are right against the right edge and would look better if they were a bit to the left.

Sorry about all the questions. Still trying to figure all this out.

[BR549]

Steve I am not sure what you are trying to do. The redDRO is just an image that you overlay the dro on.  You set the colors of the actual DRO to white with black letters.

What were you expecting it to do?  DID the image that the DRO sits on NOT show up in mach? That would be a path problem. Were you starting from scratch or modifing another screen to make it work. The only way I can get things to work rightwith a WIZARD is to start from stratch AND make sure verything you need is IN THE RIGHT PLACE BEFORE YOU START otherwise the pathing gets screwed up EVEN THOUGH Machscreen SAYS it is right it will not work in MACH as a wizard.

ON the NUMBERS you need to check IN windows as to the DPI that the fonts use.  I think the correct settings is 96dpi.

Just a some thoughts, (;-) TP

[ger21]

Is there a way to shift the numbers in the DRO to the left a little bit? The numbers are right against the right edge and would look better if they were a bit to the left.

What I do is have a background DRO in my background image, the same color as the DRO. Uncheck "Boxed DRO's" in general config, and place the DRO slightly to the left, which gives the right border you're looking for.