[Gambas-user] Color

[B Bruen]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:07:40 +0200
Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...> wrote:

> Le 15/07/2014 00:52, B Bruen a écrit :
...
> > 1) I'd like to define some new color names (e.g. DarkBackground) as
> > there is just not enough standard color names to do all I need. This
> > is not a problem with the Color override as I can define as many
> > different names as I like. My problem is the IDE.  It wont let me
> > type a color name in the Background field on the properties panel,
> > the only way to set a color name is via the button and the "Select a
> > Color" popup which, of course, has never heard of my "DarkBackground"
> > color.  So, is the textbox part of the Background property control
> > really read only or have I done something silly to our local version
> > of the IDE?
> >
> 
> You should not expect the IDE to be modified by your single own personal 
> program.
> 
> The pre-defined system colors are a common subset of system colors 
> defined by QT4 and GTK+. Some of them, like Color.LightBackground and 
> Color.LightForeground are actually a mix of two system colors.
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Benoît Minisini
> 

No I didn't expect the IDE to cope with "my single own personal program". 
What I was looking at was a way to define "custom color names" that the IDE could cope with somehow. But 
having stepped through the IDE code and how it handles property "realValue"s I see the difficulties involved.  It seems a bit of a shame actually as I think custom color names could add value to the IDE. I'm thinking color-names like ErrorBackground or ErrorForeground  could be used by someone who wants to highlight all controls that failed validation on an update action on a form and things like that.  Or whatever other name a developer would want to use to highlight multiple controls on a form.

Nevertheless, I will work on how this could be done using our local version of the IDE in my spare time (haha!). Which means I may have to come back to you on some specific issues with the code. :-)

regards
Bruce
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B Bruen <bbruen at ...2308...>