A breath of fresh air.
 

Well, as many of you know who are in chat, I have poor eyesight. This means that I use the high contrast color schemes in windows, which turns all my backgrounds black, and attempts to change all text to white. I was kicking around in the new version of HAM last night, and I decided to finally write and explain the problems I had with it to Loke.

You see, there is no way to change default font color in HAM, so for me all the main screen text that hasn't changed in the past week is all black on black. To see it, I have to click on each line in turn to see what's there. Well, when I checked my email this morning, I actually had a reply to my email, and Loke said this.

"Sure. I'll make a selctor in Settings for default font color. It will be included in the next version."
/Loke

Loke has now made it onto my favorite persons of all time list. I've tried this with other programmers trying to let them see that not everyone who is interested in their products has perfect eyesight. This is the very first time I've ever had a reply. Everybody who has ignored me has lost my business forever. It's just so nice to have someone understand that the little things can make a huge amount of difference to some people.

That is all, carry on.

Tell

Loke as always seemed like a pretty good guy.That is the main reason I registered HAM when it stopped being free.

Wow, cool for you Tell, very nice of Loke to do that :)

FM

FWIW, anytime I'm developing software I make an effort to use Windows system colors rather than hard-coded colors, and I'm always responsive to comments about color problems.

He's already done it! Yay! Can select a bunch of different colors for the main screen font, instead of it just being black. I'm a happy person now, I can actually make better use of HAM now since I can see at a glance what I need to, instead of hunting down the right player by clicking till I find 'em.


Tell

I wish more people would do this, Mr. Wed. Sadly, I've run across many people that don't, and have no real care when it causes problems for those who are in the minority. Full Fledged games are just as bad, they create their color schemes in ways that don't contrast enough, but never seem to consider those of us who can still see...but not as well and have trouble with lack of contrast. For instance...I've had a post on the Paradox boards for more than a week in the CK game section, asking for help in changing the tooltips or with bolding all the fonts. I've not had one single reply despite 50+ views.

Tell

Edit: *Tellistto pencils in Mr. Wednesday on the Favorite People of All Time(tm) list

lemme just say:

wow...

can i send him fanmail, now? :)