Select Hue Dialog Box

The Display Settings dialog box has controls that allow you to change the background color of a control. You can select a gradient background color, which is only applicable to some controls, by selecting the Gradient option or a solid background color by selecting the Solid Color option.

Use the Select Hue dialog box to select the hue of a control’s gradient background.

Hue refers to the attribute of a color that allows it to be classified as yellow, blue, and red among others.

Color Palette

Click a hue on the color palette. A tool tip with the preview of the hue as well as its numeric value displays when you hover your mouse over the color palette. When you click the hue, the selected hue displays in the Current field.

Current

This field displays the hue that you click on the color palette. The displayed hue changes when you click another hue on the color palette or when the value of the Hue field changes.

Upon loading of PM Compass, the values of the Current and Previous fields are the same.

Hue

You can modify the hue by either entering manually its numeric value or clicking

. The up button increases the value while the down button decreases it. You can select a value from 0 through 359.

Cancel

Click this button to close the dialog box without saving any changes to the Hue value.

What do you want to do?

To display the Select Hue dialog box:

On the application toolbar, click Settings » User Preferences. The User Preferences dialog box displays.
Click Display Settings. The Display Settings dialog box displays. The Forms tab displays by default.

You can also click other tabs that contain the controls you want to modify.

Clear the Use Default Settings check box. This action enables the Background and/or Foreground group boxes.
In the Gradient Color field, click .

The gradient background color is only applicable to certain controls. If the Gradient Color option is still disabled, select another control from the Control Selection field.

Select Hue Dialog Box

Hue refers to the attribute of a color that allows it to be classified as yellow, blue, and red among others.

Color Palette

Current

Upon loading of PM Compass, the values of the Current and Previous fields are the same.

Previous

Upon loading of PM Compass, the values of the Current and Previous fields are the same.

Hue

OK

Cancel

What do you want to do?

You can also click other tabs that contain the controls you want to modify.

The gradient background color is only applicable to certain controls. If the Gradient Color option is still disabled, select another control from the Control Selection field.