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1. Highlight unit colours are not calibrated properly. For instance Choosing white gives you black outlines and choosing black gives you white outlines.

2. I prefer graphical icons for the unit list. Setting it in the game is fine but it is not remembered. I have to change it each time. When I open the scenario, both Counters and Graphical are checked.

3. After upgrading to 1.00a, the change is not reflected in the about box.

3 small things but I thought you would be interested.

ORIGINAL: z1812

1. Highlight unit colours are not calibrated properly. For instance Choosing white gives you black outlines and choosing black gives you white outlines.

You're misunderstanding. Options > Highlight Colors sets the hex highlights, when displaying Visibility for instance. For each hex highlight color, there is an alternate selected counter highlight color. Choosing white gives white hex outlines, and black selected counter outlines, and vice versa.

2. I prefer graphical icons for the unit list. Setting it in the game is fine but it is not remembered. I have to change it each time. When I open the scenario, both Counters and Graphical are checked.

We'll look into applying persistence here in ME 1.01.

3. After upgrading to 1.00a, the change is not reflected in the about box.

This resulted from last-minute confusion creating and handing off the Zero Day Patch to Matrix/Slitherine. We thought the latest bug-fix EXEs would be packaged in a remastered 1.00, so we kept the version # 1.00. Alas, it didn't work out that way, and on Matrix/Slitherine's end they redesignated everything as v1.00a.

3 small things but I thought you would be interested.

Thanks for the feedback.

Hi Berto,

The option I am talking about is called Highlight Colours. The default is magenta. When you click on a unit graphical icon, the unit is out lined in the colour. It also highlights the unit in the Unit List. The colours are not working as they should.

ORIGINAL: z1812

The option I am talking about is called Highlight Colours. The default is magenta. When you click on a unit graphical icon, the unit is out lined in the colour. It also highlights the unit in the Unit List. The colours are not working as they should.

We are talking about the same thing, just interpreting it differently.

ORIGINAL: berto

ORIGINAL: z1812

1. Highlight unit colours are not calibrated properly. For instance Choosing white gives you black outlines and choosing black gives you white outlines.

You're misunderstanding. Options > Highlight Colors sets the hex highlights, when displaying Visibility for instance. For each hex highlight color, there is an alternate selected counter highlight color. Choosing white gives white hex outlines, and black selected counter outlines, and vice versa.

Maybe the problem is this:



If you have Options > Hex Highlights > Hex Outline selected, you will have hex highlights showing as I described. In the above screenshot, that is with

[*]Options > Hex Highlights > Hex Outline
[*]Options > Highlight Colors > Yellow

both selected. As you can see, with the indicated unit selected, the hex highlights are indeed yellow.

Why is the unit highlight orange (look hard, you'll see it)? It's because orange is yellow's Alternate Color.

If I instead have selected

[*]Options > Hex Highlights > Hex Outline (Alternate)
[*]Options > Highlight Colors > Yellow

I am saying use the Alternate color -- alternate to the Highlight Colors color -- as the hex highlight. Here is the result:



If you look closely (kind of hard to see), with Highlight Colors set to Yellow, yes, but with Hex Outline (Alternate) set for the Hex Highlights, indeed the orange alternate color, alternate to yellow, is displaying for the hex highlights.

I believe it's WAD, if yes kind of confusing. Remember: these are settings to specify the hex highlights. Whatever the unit highlight color happens to be is incidental to that. (Incidental in the sense that for the unit highlight, it shows the hex highlight's alternate color.)

Anyway, for whatever color effects you desire, I believe you now should be able to figure out what you need to do.

Thank you.