Colors in Secondary Display

Colors in secondary monitor can be customized by editing the zround configuration file (zround.ini). The path where de configuration file is located depends on your installation path and/or your operating system. The full path is dumped to the zround log window.

Secondary monitor can use different font and backgroudn colors, even background images. The following keys definded into [MONITOR] section controls how the data looks. You must create the key/value pairs if they doesn't exist to override default values

key	value	description
EfectoPaso	It controls how to draw the box on car pass (box around the racer's data during 1sec)
	“No”=none
	“Claro”=light→dark box (Default). Recommended for dark backgrounds
	“Oscuro”=dark→light box. Recommended for light/white backgrounds
ColorLetraMonitor	color in RGB format	racers lap & times texts font color (odd rows)
ColorLetraMonitor2	color in RGB format	racers lap & times texts font color (even rows)
ColorSombraLetraMonitor	color in RGB format	text shadow fond color
ColorCabeceraMonitor	color in RGB format	header background color (NAME LAPS TIME etc.)
ColorLetraCabeceraMonitor	color in RGB format	header text font color
ColorCocheParadoMonitor	color in RGB format	color to use for stopped cars
ColorFondoMonitor	color in RGB format	background color (if no image file is defined, see next key)
FicheroFondoMonitor	“Default” The default blue gradient background. If this key is missing, it is used this default which disable the “ColorFondoMonitor” key
	(empty) It won’t be used any background image file
	“File path”: a bitmap (.jpg format is mandatory) file used for background display

RGB Color format

The Color values can be RGB component hex numbers ($00BBGGRR) where:

              BB: Is de blue component. Values from 00 to FF
              GG: Is de green component. Values from 00 to FF
              RR: Is de red component. Values from 00 to FF

Key examples

Font color in black:

ColorLetraMonitor=$00000000

or

ColorLetraMonitor=clBlack

Header Font color in Blue:

ColorLetraCabeceraMonitor=$00FF0000

or

ColorLetraCabeceraMonitor=clBlue

No background image

FicheroFondoMonitor=

Examples

[MONITOR]
ColorLetraMonitor=clBlack
ColorSombraLetraMonitor=clWhite
ColorCabeceraMonitor=clYellow
ColorLetraCabeceraMonitor=clBlue
ColorFondoMonitor=clWhite
FicheroFondoMonitor=

Black & White look:

[MONITOR]
ColorLetraMonitor=clBlack
ColorLetraMonitor2=clBlack
ColorSombraLetraMonitor=clWhite
ColorCabeceraMonitor=clWhite
ColorLetraCabeceraMonitor=clBlack
ColorFondoMonitor=clWhite
FicheroFondoMonitor=

You will get …

Odd and Even rows in black
Shadow color white (the same as background so it won’t be visible)
Header background white
Header font black
Background color white
Background file “none” (The default is the gradated blue)

Screenshot

Black & White with custom background

[MONITOR] 
ColorLetraMonitor=clBlack
ColorLetraMonitor2=clBlack
ColorSombraLetraMonitor=clWhite
ColorCabeceraMonitor=clGray
ColorLetraCabeceraMonitor=clBlack
ColorFondoMonitor=clWhite
ColorCocheParadoMonitor = $00202080
FicheroFondoMonitor=c:\images\MyBackground.jpg