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The Color switch specifies color of various parts of the PWB display.
Color:name value
name
Identifies the part of PWB affected by the color value.
value
Two hexadecimal digits specifying the foreground and background color of the indicated item.
Color Names
PWB uses the following color names and default color values for the various parts of the PWB display:
Table R.13 PWB Color Names
| Name | Default Value | Description |
| Alert | 70 | Message box |
| Background | 07 | (Not visible) |
| Border | 07 | Window borders |
| Builderr | 40 | Build message line in active window |
| Buttondown | 07 | Button while it is down |
| Desktop | 80 | Desktop |
| Dialogaccel | 7F | Dialog box accelerator |
| Dialogaccelbor | 7F | Dialog box accelerator border |
| Dialogbox | 70 | Dialog box |
| Disabled | 78 | Disabled items in menus and dialogs |
| Elevator | 07 | Scroll box |
| Enabled | 70 | Available items in menus and dialogs |
| Greyed | 78 | (Not visible) |
| Helpbold* | 8F | Bold Help text |
| Helpitalic* | 8A | Italic Help text and the characters |
| Helpnorm* | 87 | Plain Help text |
| Helpunderline* | 8C | Emphasized Help text |
| Helpwarning* | 70 | Current hyperlink |
| Highlight | 1F | Highlighted text; text found by searches |
| Hilitectrl | 07 | Highlighted control item |
| Info | 3F | Special information |
| Itemhilitesel | 0F | Highlighted character in selected item |
| Listbox | 70 | List box within a dialog box |
| Location | 70 | Location indicator in status bar |
| Menu | 70 | Menu bar |
| Menubox | 70 | Menu |
| Menuhilite | 7F | Highlighted character in menu |
| Menuhilitesel | 0F | Highlighted character in selected menu |
| Menuselected | 07 | Selected menu |
| Message | 70 | Message area of status bar |
| Pushbutton | 70 | Button that is not pressed |
| Pwbwindowborder | 07 | PWB window borders |
| Pwbwindowtext | 87 | PWB window text |
| Scratch | 07 | (Not visible) |
| Scrollbar | 70 | Gray area and arrows in scroll bar |
| Selection | 71 | Current selection |
| Shadow | 08 | Shadows |
| Status | 7F | Indicator area of status bar |
| Text | 17 | Text in a window |
* Defined by the Help extension. Define these settings in the [PWB-PWBHELP] section of TOOLS.INI.
Color Values
Color values for the Color switch are two hexadecimal digits that specify the color of the item. The first digit specifies the background color and the second digit specifies the foreground color, according to the following table:
Table R.14 PWB Color Values
| Color | Digit | Color | Digit |
| Black | 0 | Dark Gray | 8 |
| Blue | 1 | Bright Blue | 9 |
| Green | 2 | Bright Green | A |
| Cyan | 3 | Bright Cyan | B |
| Red | 4 | Bright Red | C |
| Magenta | 5 | Bright Magenta | D |
| Brown | 6 | Yellow | E |
| White | 7 | Bright White | F |
For example, a setting of 3E displays a cyan background (3) and a yellow foreground (E).
Note that only color displays support all the colors listed. If you have a monochrome adapter or monochrome monitor, the only available colors are black (0), white (7), and bright white (F). All other colors are displayed as white.