Colors; Organizing The Screen - Canon Camera Hackers Manual

Setting > Menu RBF Font..., press
or press MENU to escape.
Note: Not every font supports all national characters. If the national
characters of the chosen language do not appear correctly, select a differ-
ent font. You may have to repeat this process a few times until you find a
satisfying solution.
Hint: To switch back to the default font, just select a non-font file.

4.2.3 Colors

The rest of the submenu Visual Settings is dedicated to colors. Both the text
color and the background color can be changed for different information
items. The default background color is a semi-transparent, neutral gray. To
change a color, press FUNC/SET
color chooser. Select a suitable color with the LEFT, RIGHT, UP, and
buttons. Commit the selection with
transparent and opaque colors are available.

4.2.4 Organizing the screen

The amount of information the CHDK is able to show on the display is
amazing—almost any camera state can be displayed on the screen. There-
fore, it becomes mandatory to select the information carefully and to ar-
range its layout properly. Otherwise, you would be overwhelmed by an
information overload that would be disturbing in shooting situations in-
stead of being helpful. Most of these settings are found in the submenu
OSD.
Let's discuss these settings one by one:
Show OSD. Here you can specify whether you want to show the CHDK
f
OSD information at all. Note that this setting does not affect the native
OSD information. It also does not affect the Edge Overlay, the Histo-
gram, or the Zebra function. Simply press
OSD on or off.
The corresponding entry Hide in? specifies when to show the OSD infor-
f
mation if it is switched on. Select Don't if you do not want to hide the
OSD at all, select In Playb if you want to hide the CHDK OSD during
playback mode, select On Disp if you want to hide the CHDK OSD to-
gether with the native OSD (which probably makes the most sense), or
select both if you want to hide it in both situations. Unfortunately, this
setting does not affect all CHDK OSD information items. The only way
FUNC/SET and select a font that suits you,
on the color entry. This brings you into the
FUNC/SET or cancel with MENU. Both
FUNC/SET
4.2 Customizing the user interface
DOWN
to switch the CHDK
Figure 4-3
The CHDK file browser is used to select
a font for displaying menu items.
Figure 4-4
The OSD submenu. This image was
compiled from two subsequent
screenshots.
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