Mantid ignores some windows colour scheme settings

[mantid-builder]

This issue was originally TRAC 8866

Original Reporter: Keith Brown

I've discovered that mantid seems to ignore some of the window colour scheme options on windows 7 when using the classic windows style (the win 95-ME style as opposed to aero).

I've changed my desktop scheme to "high contrast" - meaning everything black with yellow or cyan highlights. Mantid takes on the black window body and yellow text, but not the panels, meaning text entry is rather difficult (putting yellow text into a white box)

I know there are settings in mantid for this under View->Preferences->General->Colors, but they should really update themselves if windows (or the host OS if this applies to mac and linux) changes it, or take it straight from the host OS without having an override.

Tooltips also have this problem and don't even have an override within mantid

There is also the issue where if windows changes the base window color mantid doesn't take this on board until a restart

[mantid-builder]

@NickDraper (2014-02-14T11:07:58):
bulk move to assigned at the into of the triage step

[NickDraper]

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