[squeak-dev] [squak-dev] How do I change the debugger highlighting color?

Chris Cunningham cunningham.cb at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 15:06:29 UTC 2015


Thank you Karl for tracking this down.  I have reverted it in my image.

the problem with the gray is that I just cannot see it.  The monitor/my
eyes combination just can't make out Color gray: 0.9 as a highlight color -
I might as well not have a highlight.

-cbc

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:14 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I tracked it down to
> NewParagraph>>selectionColor
> | color | Display depth = 1 ifTrue: [^ Color veryLightGray]. Display depth
> = 2 ifTrue: [^ Color gray]. color := Preferences textHighlightColor. self
> focused ifFalse: [color := Color gray: 0.9]. ^ color
>
> I liked the previous version of this method better since the
> unfocused color reflected the your selection color:
>
> self focused ifFalse: [color := color alphaMixed: 0.2 with: Color
> veryVeryLightGray].
>
>
> It's important to see the color of selection in the Debugger even if the
> pane not has focus
>
> Karl
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Because I really, really need too change the color. I can't see where the
>> error is - the 'highlight' color is so faint, it looks like nothing is
>> highlighted at all.  It makes tracking down where the error is really,
>> really hard.
>>
>> I had a similar issue a few years ago with the Moose guys - they changed
>> the sliders in the windows to be more aesthetically pleasing, but on some
>> LCD monitors (notably, mine), the color is practically not there at all -
>> like, apparently, this highlight color.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> cbc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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