As much as I love using Hal’s Helper, I may now be forced to do the CGs on paper. My iPad updated the iOS last night and Hal looks totally different and awful. It still has that aqua background, but now the little spaces where you type in the letters are now tiny bright pink ovals with a symbol in it that represents “up and down, scroll” that is almost the same color as the typed letters, and that color does not have enough contrast to the oval’s pink, so that it’s difficult to read the words.
I don’t know if the new IOS version is rendering his code differently or if maybe Hal changed it himself. ?????
HAL probably violates some magic IOS protocol or rule that didn’t make any difference before but gives the results you are seeing now. HAL will probably straighten it out in a few days. You are HAL’s beta site. There are probably other sites that do what HAL does, though I must admit I have become a fan of HAL on chrome/PC. I used to use a DIY Excel spreadsheet that I was accustomed to (and “coded” myself) but HAL has advantages, though I found it easier to see patterns in the Excel format.
The same thing happened to me in December. No one else here seemed to have the problem. Not sure if it’s exclusive to IPad.
I emailed Hal and he changed the code so that the selected letters appeared much bolder, and it helps. Otherwise I had the same exact issue you now have. It was frustrating and no longer fun. Yes, awful.
I would have expected that the code change applied to all who access HCH, but obviously not.
No change to HAL on my Amazon Fire tablet.
Got notification of some sort of update overnight on both my Samsung S10+ and my tablet but have no idea what it was or its effect.