[X Newbies] Solid Backgrounds

[Alex]

On Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004, at 13:24 Canada/Eastern, Chris Walker wrote:

> I wish to recreate the OS9 Bondi Extra Dark screen background and use 
> it
> with OSX.[...]
>
> Does anyone know the RGB colours for Bondi Extra Dark or is there any 
> way
> I can use the OS9 file in X?   I doubt the latter is possible as I 
> would
> guess they are embedded in OS9 somewhere.

The background patterns are stored in ppat resources in the Appearance 
control panel. Probably the easiest way is to use ResEdit to open ppat 
ID 20018, copy it, and paste in Photoshop. (You can find ResEdit in 
various places on the 'net. It runs in Classic, but it's free.) The 
actual values are, in QuickDraw hex, 0000,451E,4A3D; that is, 0,69,74 
(but I wouldn't swear to my conversion).

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