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Color of highlighted line in a report John K 08-09-2006
Posted by John K on August 13, 2006, 1:00 pm
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 Hey, I just got a reply from a support guy at Quicken. He says that there
is no way to change the color of a highlighted line and that is true for
both Quicken 2006 and 2007. He says that he agrees that the dark blue
highlight makes the line difficult to read and will pass a suggestion along
to the development group to change the color to be more transparent. I'll
be sitting on the edge of my chair waiting for the update. :-)

> Thanks for your input. I, too, tried all that stuff but was not able to
> change the highlight color.
>
> Do you suppose no one else is bothered by the fact that they can't read
> the DARK blue highlighted line in a report? Seems that this would be SO
> EASY to fix. I did report this as a bug to Quicken 6 tech support.
>
>>I tried changing the Windows color scheme to no avail. For your reference
>> right-click on an empty area of your display, select Properties, then the
>> Appearance tab. In the resulting Display Properties form you can change
>> the
>> entire Color scheme. Or you can click the Advanced button to change
>> individual items. The relevant item (in the drop-down list under Item:)
>> is
>> "Selected Items". Your item is obviously not under Windows control.
>>
>> I also looked in Quicken under Edit in the top menu: Edit ->
>> Preferences ->
>> Quicken Program then click Register in the left pane and then the Colors
>> button in the right pane. As stated in Quicken Help this seems to change
>> only colors in your registers. The available selection of colors are all
>> very light anyway, nothing remotely resembling dark blue. Check this out
>> if
>> you like - you can do some neat stuff here that I didn't know about
>> before.
>>
>> I also tried Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Accessibility ->
>> Accessibility Wizard, told it I was blind, and selected the High Contrast
>> #1
>> scheme. This changed almost everything but the report highlighting. Try
>> this
>> if you haven't had your morning coffee - the garish display will give you
>> a
>> real jolt :-)
>>
>> There might be a way to change the highlighting color if it's specified
>> in
>> the Windows registry but I strongly suspect it's hard-coded in Quicken.
>>
>> Intuit did a lot of overhauling of the Reports area for both Q2005 and
>> Q2006
>> and the work is probably continuing. Perhaps it's fixed in Q2007. If not
>> maybe Q2008 if you report the problem.
>>
>> Thanks for posting any interesting question. Sorry I couldn't find a fix.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>> Thanks for your comments. You are right, the blue highlight doesn't
>>> occur
>>> on the cash flow report itself. My mistake. However, on the cash flow
>>> report, when I double click on one of the line amounts, I get another
>>> report that details each transaction that makes up the line item from
>>> the
>>> cash flow report. It's that report that gets the dark blue
>>> highlighting.
>>>
>>> As you suggest, I think this must be a bug in Q2006, unless it can be
>>> changed by some sort of configuration parameter, perhaps a Windows XP
>>> parameter, however I can't find it if it is.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if this is the case in Q2007 as well?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I've got Quicken 2006 running on Windows XP and I find that if I
>>>>> create
>>>>> a
>>>>> report, like, for example, a cash flow report, and then highlight a
>>>>> line
>>>>> in the report, the highlight color is dark blue. The blue highlight
>>>>> is
>>>>> so
>>>>> dark that I can't read the highlited line. Does anyone know how to
>>>>> change
>>>>> the color of a highlighted line? Thanks in advance for any help you
>>>>> have
>>>>> to offer.
>>>>
>>>> I have Q2006 Premier H&B and XP and I don't get any highlighting in my
>>>> Cash
>>>> Flow report - just an unshaded box around the amount field of the
>>>> selected
>>>> item. However I do get the dark blue shading in other reports, e.g. the
>>>> Transaction report. Still other reports, e.g. the Itemized Categories
>>>> report, have an unshaded box around the entire line.
>>>>
>>>> The dark blue shading appears to be hard-coded into the Quicken
>>>> program.
>>>> It
>>>> seems to me to be the same color used to highlight items in Quicken
>>>> menus.
>>>> For selected menu items the color of the menu item text is inverted to
>>>> white. That's probably what should be done, but isn't, for selected
>>>> items
>>>> in
>>>> reports.
>>>>
>>>> I think you should report this as a Quicken bug.
>>>>
>>>> Jerry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>



Posted by John Pollard on August 13, 2006, 1:09 pm
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> Hey, I just got a reply from a support guy at Quicken. He
> says that there is no way to change the color of a highlighted
> line and that is true for both Quicken 2006 and 2007. He says
> that he agrees that the dark blue highlight makes the line
> difficult to read and will pass a suggestion along to the
> development group to change the color to be more transparent.
> I'll be sitting on the edge of my chair waiting for the
> update. :-)

If you want an even better chance of having this acted on, why
not report it at the Quicken forums in the Product Feedback
forum. If it is as easy as it sounds, I would guess there's a
reasonably good chance that it would get fixed in Q2007, for
which there will almost certainly be another release (and for
Q2006, if there is ever a reason for Intuit to issue another
release of it ... I don't think this issue alone would be cause
for a new Q2006 release).



Posted by John Pollard on August 13, 2006, 1:22 pm
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>> Hey, I just got a reply from a support guy at Quicken. He
>> says that there is no way to change the color of a
>> highlighted line and that is true for both Quicken 2006 and
>> 2007. He says that he agrees that the dark blue highlight
>> makes the line difficult to read and will pass a suggestion
>> along to the development group to change the color to be more
>> transparent. I'll be sitting on the edge of my chair waiting
>> for the update. :-)
>
> If you want an even better chance of having this acted on, why
> not report it at the Quicken forums in the Product Feedback
> forum. If it is as easy as it sounds, I would guess there's a
> reasonably good chance that it would get fixed in Q2007, for
> which there will almost certainly be another release (and for
> Q2006, if there is ever a reason for Intuit to issue another
> release of it ... I don't think this issue alone would be
> cause for a new Q2006 release).

In case you do decide to report it; your results are different
than mine. In my Q2006 Premier, the problem only appears in a
very few of all the reports available in Q2006 ... and the Cash
Flow report is not one of them. I see the problem in the
following reports:

1.) Cash Flow Transactions
2.) Itemized Categories
3.) Itemized Payees
4.) Tax Schedule
5.) Tax Summary
6.) Account Balances

(Account Balances is the oddball as it's the only one where the
problem occurs on lines that are not Quicken "transactions".)

(My workaround is to select the line below the one I want to
view, then treat the blue band as a sort of underline.)




Posted by Jerry Boyle on August 13, 2006, 2:02 pm
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>> Hey, I just got a reply from a support guy at Quicken. He says that
>> there is no way to change the color of a highlighted line and that is
>> true for both Quicken 2006 and 2007. He says that he agrees that the
>> dark blue highlight makes the line difficult to read and will pass a
>> suggestion along to the development group to change the color to be more
>> transparent. I'll be sitting on the edge of my chair waiting for the
>> update. :-)
>
> If you want an even better chance of having this acted on, why not report
> it at the Quicken forums in the Product Feedback forum. If it is as easy
> as it sounds, I would guess there's a reasonably good chance that it would
> get fixed in Q2007, for which there will almost certainly be another
> release (and for Q2006, if there is ever a reason for Intuit to issue
> another release of it ... I don't think this issue alone would be cause
> for a new Q2006 release).

For large systems even a simple fix is dangerous because it may expose
latent bugs in unrelated areas of the product. For a product with Quicken's
extensive user community this risk is usually unacceptable unless (a) it
fixes an important operational bug or (b) it causes database corruption.

I'm probably more annoyed than most at the new minor bugs that creep up in
each new Quicken release. Sometimes I even suspect Intuit of deliberately
planting these bugs to get you to buy the next release :-) But I still
support Intuit's decision not to fix minor problems before the next product
release. You probably have to be a programmer to appreciate this philosophy.




Posted by John K on August 13, 2006, 3:46 pm
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>
>>> Hey, I just got a reply from a support guy at Quicken. He says that
>>> there is no way to change the color of a highlighted line and that is
>>> true for both Quicken 2006 and 2007. He says that he agrees that the
>>> dark blue highlight makes the line difficult to read and will pass a
>>> suggestion along to the development group to change the color to be more
>>> transparent. I'll be sitting on the edge of my chair waiting for the
>>> update. :-)
>>
>> If you want an even better chance of having this acted on, why not report
>> it at the Quicken forums in the Product Feedback forum. If it is as easy
>> as it sounds, I would guess there's a reasonably good chance that it
>> would
>> get fixed in Q2007, for which there will almost certainly be another
>> release (and for Q2006, if there is ever a reason for Intuit to issue
430 No such article
>
>>> Hey, I just got a reply from a support guy at Quicken. He says that
>>> there is no way to change the color of a highlighted line and that is
>>> true for both Quicken 2006 and 2007. He says that he agrees that the
>>> dark blue highlight makes the line difficult to read and will pass a
>>> suggestion along to the development group to change the color to be more
>>> transparent. I'll be sitting on the edge of my chair waiting for the
>>> update. :-)
>>
>> If you want an even better chance of having this acted on, why not report
>> it at the Quicken forums in the Product Feedback forum. If it is as easy
>> as it sounds, I would guess there's a reasonably good chance that it
>> would
>> get fixed in Q2007, for which there will almost certainly be another
>> release (and for Q2006, if there is ever a reason for Intuit to issue
>> another release of it ... I don't think this issue alone would be cause
>> for a new Q2006 release).
>
> For large systems even a simple fix is dangerous because it may expose
> latent bugs in unrelated areas of the product. For a product with
> Quicken's
> extensive user community this risk is usually unacceptable unless (a) it
> fixes an important operational bug or (b) it causes database corruption.
>
> I'm probably more annoyed than most at the new minor bugs that creep up in
> each new Quicken release. Sometimes I even suspect Intuit of deliberately
> planting these bugs to get you to buy the next release :-) But I still
> support Intuit's decision not to fix minor problems before the next
> product
> release. You probably have to be a programmer to appreciate this
> philosophy.
>
>
>
Hey, I was a programmer for 35 years before I recently retired. Although I
sympathize with the fear of fixing a minor bug which might cause some other
unrelated failure, it's always been my philosophy to fix these minor bugs
whenever I came across them. It has a real positive impact on the user base
to see little annoying bugs drop by the wayside. They guy making the fix
needs to be more than an idiot when he makes the change to prevent
additional errors. Then, of course, regression testing should be performed
on each release. Competent programmers finding great difficulty fixing
simple bugs without causing unlrelated problems is a reflection of a sick
code base and or bad design. I certainly hope this is not the case with
Quicken, although some times I wonder.



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