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- My IE9's menu bar changes colors to yellow and popup boxes change to game theme when running Aurora. (Not very important, just saying:)).
And here I thought I'd be the first to report this.
I'm running Windows XP Pro with SP3 and I can confirm this bug. But for me it is
much worse than what Phobos implies.
Here's
how to reproduce it:
Start Aurora and on the gen window just click the [X] in the upper right corner to terminate the program.
However, instead of terminating, the program assumes a galaxy was already generated. A narrow horizontal game menu bar appears. Next, click on the [X] of this menu bar to terminate the program.
The result? The Windows' menu color is
permanently changed to Aurora's dark grayish-beige color. This is
not just for IE, but for
all Windows programs and applications that use the Windows' theme.
I can also confirm that terminating the program prematurely with the [X] button is
not the only way to cause this behavior. Merely starting the program as normal and then selecting the "Exit" option from the "Game" menu will do the same thing!
(Personally, I feel like Aurora should not even attempt to mess with the menu color at all. We all have our own preferences for Windows' themes, don't we? But if this is a
must, it should
save the user's original color, change it for Aurora, and then automatically restore user's default color right before exit. )
In Windows XP, this is what is necessary for me to fix the messed up menu color:
1. Right click on desktop
2. Click "Appearance" tab
3. In bottom right corner, click "Advanced" button
4. In the "Advanced Appearance" window, under the "Item:" list, scroll down to select "Menu".
5. To the right of this Item: > Menu, under "Color 1:", scroll down to select whatever old color your menus used. (For me it was the Windows XP default 'Beige' [R:236, G:233, B:216]. )
Also, I have
another "bug" to report, of sorts. It's merely a grammar error, though.
In "Game Details" window, the pop-up text for hovering over "Construction Cycle Time" says,
The time in seconds between production cycles (i. e. , everything but movement/combat) in seconds. Default is 400,000. Warning: Reducing this may have a significant effect on performance.
I highlighted the typo in red. It would be more appropriate to say,
The time between production cycles (i. e. , everything but movement/combat) in seconds. Default is 400,000. Warning: Reducing this may have a significant effect on performance.