A little help? My general Notes have a magenta fill....

[hollister design Studio]

My general notes as made by the general Notes tool have a magenta fill color.

When selected I have them set to "class Style" for fill and class color for color.

They are on my 00-NOTES class which has a solid white fill set to use at creation.

 

Even if I set the fill to  'solid' and and the color to white (or anything other than magenta) the general note stays magenta.

 

If I change the class to any other class it displays correctly with class styles - Is there something wrong with my class?

 

Where is the setting I'm missing?

 

Screen grab with note selected - attributes, note, 'object info' and 'edit class' open

[Boh]

That’s weird.

 

You could try creating a new class from scratch in another file with the exact same name. Then import that class into your file. The old class will be deleted but all objects on it will transfer to the new class. All vp and saved view visibility settings for the old class will also transfer to the new class.

 

You need to import the class via the “new class” dialogue.

Edited September 8, 2021 by Boh

[Jeff Prince]

Does your text style "HD5 - Note" have a background color set it in....

Edited September 8, 2021 by jeff prince
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[hollister design Studio]

@jeff prince

It does have something to do with the text style.

• If I uncheck the "use a creation" box in the class edit menu the text is not magenta.
• If I keep it checked but change the style, for some styles it's magenta and for some it's not.
• I created a new text style and it turned the general notes magenta.

 

Seems to be only with the General Notes Tool.

Using the Text Tool with "HDS - NOTE"  style does not make text magenta.

It does flash the Text Tool cursor magenta ONCE when I click on an area to type, but then it types normal black text on clear/none.

 

Question: Where is the background color setting for text styles?

 

 

 

@Boh I did import a new 00-NOTE class from a blank new doc (my template file had the magenta class/test style).

Seemed to work at first, but if I changed the text style to HDS - NOTE is went back to magenta - so not the Class but coming from the text style.

[hollister design Studio]

Plus where do I delete/edit text styles?

 

OK, found it from the resource manager.

 

It's a little odd that the  FORMAT TEXT menu accessed from the TEXT tab does not have color attributes

...but the EDIT TEXT STYLE menu from the resource manager does.

 

While every other attribute is shared:

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by hollister design Studio

[Jeff Prince]

6 minutes ago, hollister design Studio said:

@jeff prince

It does have something to do with the text style.

• If I uncheck the "use a creation" box in the class edit menu the text is not magenta.
• If I keep it checked but change the style, for some styles it's magenta and for some it's not.
• I created a new text style and it turned the general notes magenta.

 

Seems to be only with the General Notes Tool.

Using the Text Tool with "HDS - NOTE"  style does not make text magenta.

It does flash the Text Tool cursor magenta ONCE when I click on an area to type, but then it types normal black text on clear/none.

 

Question: Where is the background color setting for text styles?

 

 

 

@Boh I did import a new 00-NOTE class from a blank new doc (my template file had the magenta class/test style).

Seemed to work at first, but if I changed the text style to HDS - NOTE is went back to magenta - so not the Class but coming from the text style.

 

The beauty of Vectorworks, seemingly identical objects have different behaviors.  General notes are like a plug in object and use embedded text styles to display.  So, if your text style has a magenta background color, it won't matter what your Class settings are... The display of the text will be based on the General Note's text style.  You can try this yourself by creating a text style, creating a general note using that style, and then move it around onto different classes with different settings for color/text style/use at creation.  If you ungroup a general note, you will realize why it behaves like this.  It seems that the text style gets baked in during creation of the general note object.