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hart · Jul 15, 2003, 11:57 AM

my ever-creative 4-year-old managed to get the display colors inverted while playing Jedi Knight II. Light sabers look mighty interesting. The finder and everything else we looked at is also inverted.

I'm hoping it will revert to normal after restart. BUT, it's fascinating. How can you get this to happen on purpose? (PS it's not that Universal Access switch to white on black thing)

King Bob On The Cob · Jul 15, 2003, 12:19 PM

BlackLight can do it.... if it's not the universal access one, I don't know what else does it.

hart · Jul 15, 2003, 12:27 PM

Originally posted by King Bob On The Cob:
BlackLight can do it.... if it's not the universal access one, I don't know what else does it.

what's BlackLight? (pardon my ignorance)

The Placid Casual · Jul 15, 2003, 03:51 PM

This could be the cause:

--->'Universal Access'

--->'Seeing' tab

--->Switch to 'Black On White' (from 'White on Black')

Michel Fortin · Jul 15, 2003, 04:03 PM

Black Light is a little application I made specificaly to do that: invert the colors on a screen. But I guess your screen does not suffer from Black Light.

I heard some time ago about a another game that did this to somebody. I don't know exactly what caused that, but The Placid Casual's solution solved it.

[APi]TheMan · Jul 15, 2003, 04:24 PM

Originally posted by Michel Fortin:
Black Light is a little application I made specificaly to do that: invert the colors on a screen. But I guess your screen does not suffer from Black Light.

I heard some time ago about a another game that did this to somebody. I don't know exactly what caused that, but The Placid Casual's solution solved it.

Command-option-control-8

dice · Jul 15, 2003, 04:53 PM

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Command-option-control-8

or Command-option-control-*

Michel Fortin · Jul 15, 2003, 07:27 PM

Have anyone tried this? do that cmd-opt-ctrl-8 thing to invert and go grayscale, then set the screen depth to more than 256 colors, and you get inverted colors!

I'm not sure how that got triggered, but this is the same state hart came to with his game.

benb · Jul 15, 2003, 09:05 PM

Wasn't there a (or is it an) April Fools program that did this?

superlarry · Jul 15, 2003, 09:18 PM

do this command then switch your number of colors. then it won't just be inverted and black and white, but inverted colors as well (for example, back up to "millions").

hart · Jul 18, 2003, 12:21 PM

another mystery in computer land. I used command-option-control-8 and first time it changed to black and white only. Second time it changed back to normal screen.

So mystery remains how the inversion happened in the first place.

Thanks for the help. Once again saved by the helpful forum folks.

mike one · Jul 18, 2003, 04:33 PM

Originally posted by hart:
another mystery in computer land. I used command-option-control-8 and first time it changed to black and white only. Second time it changed back to normal screen.

So mystery remains how the inversion happened in the first place.

Thanks for the help. Once again saved by the helpful forum folks.

didn't you say your daughter was "playing?"

hmm wonder what pushing these 10 keys does....