I don't know if this if forum worthy or not, but ...

on you new ATE 6.3, I noticed that after the install is complete, then you click you see icon for "ate 6.2" rather than "ate 6.3"

and more importantly (for me), when you open an ATE window, then click on in the lower left hand corner, you see "Status: Fg=5, Bg=0"

on an older version of ATE on my computer, the status reads: Fg=6, Bg=0"

I would like to know where this option is set to change, as I need Fg=6.

Thanks for the heads-up on the "6.2" vs. "6.3". I believe that is now fixed in the latest build, available directly from ate-6.3.1544.7-web.exe , or via the Help > Check For Updates. (This update also contains the latest ASHNET2.DLL 2.3.208 which addresses the SSH/All-Users conflicts you posted previously.)

I'm not so sure about the default colors though. Those are stored in the default.ash file, which you can see in Notepad. The line of interest is:

which means that the default fcolor is #2, the bcolor is #0. The last -0 relates to the reduced intensity background color but probably isn't relevant here.

The installer contains two copies of this file, one called default.ash, and one called default.new. The default.ash file is only installed if it doesn't already exist, so we don't overwrite your existing one when updating.

Things get a bit more complicated from here, because when you use the File > Save menu to save updated settings, there is a hierarchy of possible saved locations, with the default one being relevant only to the Current User and the current profile (%APPDATA%\ATE\configname.ash).

Once you save updated settings in one of the location farther up (or down, depending on your perspective) in the hierarchy, that file will be used in instead of the %MIAME%\default.ash.

My guess is that when fooling around with the all-users vs current-user issue, you inadvertently switched to a saved copy of your settings. (The File > Save dialog also shows where the current settings were loaded from.)

The other thing to note is that the "normal" case is for the application startup to set the foreground and background palette indices, using TAB(-2,x) and TAB(-3,x), or .XY -2 x and .XY -3 x and that will override whatever default was initially set. (The theory here is that the application should control which palette indices are being used, but each user could theoretically override the meaning/color of each palette index.) So if it is important to use that the color scheme be set to FG 6, BG 0, then it would probably be a good idea to establish that in the startup command, rather than have to worry about all the possible ways that users can mess with it on the client side.

That said, it isn't our intent that 6.3 changes anything in this area, so if you can point to where the 6.3 installer is somehow changing your existing color scheme, I'd like to fix it.

version 1544.7 still has a 6.2 icon.
[ well, the 2nd time through, i noticed that after an "un-install" that the folder and ate6.2 icons are still there. so, they are not going away during un-install.


once i removed the ATE folder from C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs and installed ATE, then the ate 6.3 icon showed up.


not sure how, but my %APPDATA/ATE/ash file had Fg=5. just, not sure how that happend.

all fixed.

as always, thank you very much for solving my problems.

I probably need to review the uninstaller to see why it doesn't remove the previous icons. But it's a known issue that it won't remove files or directories that were updated after the install. It's easy enough to delete those manually but perhaps it would be nice if it prompted you to do it automatically.

But in any case, the 6.3 installer won't remove the 6.2 stuff (icons/folder) on the theory that you may want to maintain separate 6.2 and 6.3 versions (which I do).

Thanks for the testing/feedback!