Danie

Latest version still appears to be here at https://sourceforge.net/projects/hp41cx/files/ - that is version I'm using

Yes mine is now the same, since setting the Qt5 Config Settings for theme. All looks good, and this one starts almost instantly.

Latest version still appears to be here at https://sourceforge.net/projects/hp41cx/files/ - that is version I'm using

OK sorted out. It was to do with the theming as you suggested. I went into the Qt5 Configuration Tool, and changed the Palette from Default to Custom airy colour scheme, and all the status text shows up nice and dark now. This adjusts the Qt5 window themes and does not affect the global OS themes. Thanks for your help, and I hope this helps others as well.

OK sorted out. It was to do with the theming as you suggested. I went into the Qt5 Configuration Tool, and changed the appearance from Breeze dark to Oxygen, and all the status text shows up nice and dark now. This adjusts the Qt5 window themes and does not affect the global OS themes. Thanks for your help, and I hope this helps others as well.

No it's that status area at bottom of the calculator display. It seems to drive from the HP41TextDisplay.cpp code lines 337 to 357. I don't find any window settings to change colour on my OS for this window (but do have Compositor on for KDE Plasma so maybe that is a point). The main display segment characters are perfect contrast, as is the rest of the calculator window with buttons. I'll attach a screenshot where you can just vaguely make out the 'USER' status, but can't see anything for the others....

Thanks very much. That really helped. The short of it was I created a small script file as follows to set it and execute: 1 2 3#!/bin/sh export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/lib;$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) ./qtnewtd Running well now. Only two things I notice: 1. No sound - but maybe not intended. 2. The status flags don't show at bottom of display, although for USER I can sort of make out a what looks like a faded inverted colour text ie. pale white letters, but not really for others ie. flags, PRGM, ALPHA, etc. Although...

Like others it took me a while to figure out I needed to install QT Creator to compile this. But I'm also struggling. I did manage to build an executable file for qtnewtd, but when executing it gives the error: "error while loading shared libraries: libNewTd.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and I'm also lost as never worked with QT projects. There is maybe no compiled executable that would run?