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Portability Guide


Colors and Fonts

Some attributes of user-interface widgets are specific to particular user interfaces. For the best portability, avoid using these attributes. The following attributes apply to all widgets except field groups, images, and text, and are only valid in character interfaces:

To make your application portable between character and graphical interfaces, define all four types of color specifications: FGCOLOR, BGCOLOR, DCOLOR, and PFCOLOR. Each platform uses the two appropriate specifications and ignores the remaining two.


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