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Status Needs review
Created by Dani Paul
Created on Oct 8, 2026

Suggestion to have a default set of 'inverted colors' for the Black Diagram Background

Problem:

1) Selecting the 'Black' Diagram Background (see image-1) changes only the Background color. All other colors such as Node, Member, Load, Dimension, Annotation, Results...etc do not change.

2) For better visibility in Black Screen, the user manually needs to configures colors of each items.

3) However during printing the views, the generated image comes with those 'light' colors which was set in step-2.

4) User has to select the 'White' Background again from the configure screen.

5) And re-configure the colors for better visibility on the Reports.


Solution:

A) Adding an option for the user to select the 'Default Colors' & 'Invert Colors' thus switching from the Black text within the GUI and retaining the original colors in the Report would be a breeze. (because a majority of the text in the GUI is by default black, and its presence is unknow unless user has changed the color)

B) Inverting the user defined colors in step-2 for the reports can avoid the above steps 3 to 5