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With the old versions of TMG 4 & 5 the Subject,Spouse & No known children blocks would print out in color with Vers 6.09 gold edition they are all in grey scale shade.I have been into preferences & played around with the colors,I can do it for Box Charts but not FGS. is there an easy way to do this or is it a program preset thing,Thank you Bill from Australia

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With the old versions of TMG 4 & 5 the Subject,Spouse & No known children blocks would print out in color with Vers 6.09 gold edition they are all in grey scale shade.I have been into preferences & played around with the colors,I can do it for Box Charts but not FGS. is there an easy way to do this or is it a program preset thing,Thank you Bill from Australia

 

The FGS shading has alway grey scale. However, going back to the tmg-l archives, Virginia Blakelock wrote:

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:14:45 EST

Subject: Re: [TMG] Family Group Sheet

 

There is presently no option within tmg5 to do this, but if you are

comfortable working with files, Windows Explorer, and Windows Paint program there is a

workaround which I used to change the gray color (and make new colors) . I

have only done this for the plain FGS without images. It involves changing

the color of three .bmp files in the \rrw folder in your tmg5 installation:

 

shadesf1.bmp,

shadesf2.bmp,

shadesf3.bmp.

 

There are other shade*.bmp files with very similar names - only slightly

different suffixes to 'shade', so it is important to check them carefully.

 

Using Windows Explorer:

1. Make a new folder called Colors - outside of your tmg5 installation

folder - with subfolders Gray and LightGray. Now go to your tmg installation

folder and the \rrw subfolder. Find the 3 files above and _copy_ them to the Gray

folder and also to the LightGray folder.. The Gray folder will hold your

backup copies of the 3 files and those files will not be altered.

 

2. Go to the LightGray folder. Open each .bmp in turn and lighten the

color, using Windows Paint or any paint program, making all 3 of them the same

light color. You can make them a very light gray or you can try white. You can

change the _color_ but must retain the current _name_ of the .bmp file. Do not

change that. The only way you will know which .bmp file (default Gray or new

LightGray) is active in tmg5 is by the creation dates of the .bmp files.

 

3. Copy the 3 new LightGray .bmp files to the \rrw folder in your tmg5

installation, overwriting the present .bmp files of the same name. If you want to

return to the default darker gray, just copy those Gray files back to tmg,

overwriting the lighter .bmp's.

 

That will give you lighter gray boxes in the plain FGS report, and is all you

need to do. If you want to get fancier, see below.

 

I have automated this process, opening tmg5 with different colored boxes in

plain FGS rpts, by using command lines in another file manager (DOpus). I

haven't figured out how to do this in WinXP, although I assume it involves using

the Command Prompt. My DOpus command line Copies the contents of a specific

Color folder to the \rrw folder and then opens TMG5 with that color selected.

Presently I have 4 colors for 4 different family lines, so the FGS boxes are

color coordinated for those 4 projects. Seems like there should be a way to

insert a command line using Copy File into the Windows Shortcut Properties, but

nothing I've tried works. Here's my DOpus command line for Yellow in case

anyone can share with us a way to do something similar in WindowsXP - and ideally

incorporate it into the Shortcut Properties Target:

 

copy FILE="C:\AFiles\Colors\Yellow\*.bmp" TO="C:\TMG5\rrw"

cd C:\TMG5

C:\TMG5\tmg.exe "%1"

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