spreadsheet calculator

MajorDill · 03-11-2015, 01:23 PM

Simple question (probably should be in newbies forum), where is the sc (spreadsheet calculator) "profile" file located? I am assuming it has a "profile" type file to alter it's appearance and that it is probably a hidden file.

Thanks

PS: using puppy, slackware, and vector linux

ljb643 · 03-11-2015, 03:17 PM

That would be in your home directory, called ".scrc"

MajorDill · 03-12-2015, 07:24 AM

Under puppy you run as root, so my home directory is '/root' I assume? Anyway looking under "/root" and "/" I find "/root/.sc_history" but not .scrc
I've tried Pfind on the whole disk and get "file not found" (although Pfind doesn't always find files) and puppy doesn't have slocate which I usually use.

ljb643 · 03-12-2015, 04:16 PM

The .scrc is a file you create if you want it. It won't be there if you haven't created it.

MajorDill · 03-13-2015, 08:14 AM

Okay...looks like I'm chasing a rabbit down the wrong hole. When I installed SC on Puppy for some reason it appears as white on black background in urxvt, which is hard to read (urxvt normally comes up as black letters on white background). When SC is executed, foreground and background is swapped. I figured SC was swapping the colors but maybe it is urxvt? I checked .Xdefaults which has the rxvt fore/back specified, but why it switches is still unknown. Could it be hard coded in SC? Any ideas?

millgates · 03-13-2015, 10:31 AM

Hi,
sc (or, at least the implementation that comes with slackware) uses ncurses to create the GUI. ncurses allows you to define colors and pairs (foreground/background) and access these by indices. In sc, you have 8 color pairs to redefine at your discretion, either directly through the program interface, or the config file.

for example, you can put the following into your $HOME/.scrc to change your foreground to black and background to white:

Code:

set color
color 1 = @black;@white