Highlighting of selected file, found search text

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wanderingstan
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Highlighting of selected file, found search text

Post by wanderingstan »

Hi,

Perhaps my laptop display is odd, but I find it incredibly difficult to see the highlighting of the current file name in the Document Selector, and also to see the highlighting of text found in a search.

I was able to fix the search text problem by changing the colors for "Selected Text (no focus)". However, it's a pain to do this for every Document class.

I can't find any way to change the highlighting of the Document Selector, and it's a real problem when I have 30+ files open at a time. Anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks!
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Post by MudGuard »

AFAIK the color for the current file in the document selector when the document selector is not active is coming from the system colors.
It is the same color as that set for "3D Objects".

For a quick test, set that color to something very obvious (like bright green) and have a look at Textpad's document selector again.

For a quick way back to your previous setting, select the scheme from the "Schemes" dropdown".

Unfortunately, this "3D Objects" color also influences most of the windows' frames
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Post by wanderingstan »

You're right that's the color that get's used. That's a pretty poor UI decision for TextPad, tho. In every other case the "3D Objects" is used as a background color, so it makes for a very bad highlight color.
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