Selected category in drop down within new transaction is black
When creating a new transaction in my bank or credit card accounts I open up the category drop down but the cursor highlight bar is solid black. I can see all the unelected category names but not the one that is currently selected.
Is there anywhere I can set the colour of this selection bar?
John
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Jon Hoover on 27 Jan, 2012 04:26 PM
Hi John,
That sounds odd, and is probably not a color setting issue but a software issue. Could you let me know what version of Moneydance and Java you are using (Look under Moneydance -> About Moneydance or Help -> About Moneydance).
I am wondering i you have an old version of java that is causing this.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Jon Hoover, Moneydance Support
3 Posted by john.dempsey on 27 Jan, 2012 05:30 PM
Hi Jon
I should have mentioned that I run MD on a Mac (Lion) and a Laptop (Win 7) and this only happens on the Windows machine. on the Mac it is the usual blue with white text.
Moneydance 2011r2 (803)
Java 1.6.0_29
John
Support Staff 4 Posted by Jon Hoover on 27 Jan, 2012 05:43 PM
John,
Well it looks like everything is more or less up to date. I am wondering if you could do two things.
1. Please send in a screenshot of when this is happening.
2. Go to Help->Error Console and send in a copy of whats contained in it after you reproduce this bug.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Jon Hoover, Moneydance Support
5 Posted by john.dempsey on 27 Jan, 2012 06:02 PM
Jon
Screen capture and console as requested. This happens every time.
Starting Moneydance 2011r2 (803)
Settings Folder: C:\Users\john.dempsey.EOGB.moneydance
OS: Windows 7 6.1 x86
Java: 1.6.0_29 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
netsync extension adding listener for services of type mdncsync.tcp.local.
netsync: scanning for existing services...
svc type added: ubd.tcp.local.
Regards
John
6 Posted by john.dempsey on 27 Jan, 2012 06:50 PM
I should also add that the category dropdown is the only place it happens. If I select an account in the sidebar or a transaction in an account it is correctly displayed as white lettering on a blue background.
John
Support Staff 7 Posted by Jon Hoover on 27 Jan, 2012 07:03 PM
John,
How odd....
Well lets just double check, just in case go to File->Preferences and select the color tab. Are any of the options set to black, I didn't think you could change that color but who knows? Although the weird part is the text should change color too...
So I also did some research and I found similar issues in a few old cases, though it seemed like there were several different fixes.
One was to change the windows theme and color scheme, here is a link how to do that: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/282-window-color-appearance-ch...
If that doesn't work, one users video card needed to have anti-aliasing option switched on or off and that fixed a similar problem. But that will be a bit technical so let me know if the above suggestions change anything.
Sincerely,
Jon Hoover, Moneydance Support
8 Posted by john.dempsey on 28 Jan, 2012 04:43 PM
Well I have tried all permutations of Themes, colours, transparancies, anti-aliasing etc and no change. There are no black items in the MD colour settings.
Its very strange. The category is the normal white text on a blue background when selected in a transaction but when you open up the category selector box it turns to black text on a black background for the selected category.
This is on a Dell Precision M6600 with Nvidia Quadro 4000M display adapter. Is anyone else running MD on this machine on Win 7 Ultimate and not getting this behaviour?
John
Support Staff 9 Posted by Ben Spencer on 31 Jan, 2012 12:59 AM
I understand there is a bug in the nimbus look and feel on windows.
Select File->Preferences->General
Set the Look and feel option to Windows.
Ben Spencer
Moneydance Support
10 Posted by john.dempsey on 31 Jan, 2012 08:48 AM
Thanks Ben
That has fixed it.
John
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