[texworks] TW-Highlighting-colors aren't equal to GUI-colors

[Paul A Norman]

For some reason I have just struck this now as well.

May be the permissions list got mucked up?

Paul

On 27 January 2011 22:48, Johannes Heck <heck.johannes at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> 2011/1/27 Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com>
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>> Hi Johannes,
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>> I did see a notification of scheduled maintenance on Goggle code over
>> the last recent while - may be it is related?
>>
>> Paul
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> Hi Paul,
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> I saw that notification, too, but last night it was gone and it still didn't
> work. I've just tried again, but it still doesn't work. I can't chose the
> kind of issue, too.
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> Johannes
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>> On 27 January 2011 06:59, Johannes Heck <heck.johannes at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > I still can't submit issues to tw issue tracker project - I've just
>> > submitted this issue to google code support
>> > (http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=4914), on this project, I
>> > can submit. Am I the only one who can't submit issues to the tw issue queue?
>> >
>> > 2011/1/25 Johannes Heck <heck.johannes at googlemail.com>
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>> >>
>> >> 2011/1/25 Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com>
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> as mentioned before, syntax highlighting can be customized by editing
>> >>> the respective configuration files in the resource directory.
>> >>> What can (unfortunately) not be customized at the moment are the color
>> >>> used for highlighting the current line, the color used for bracket matching,
>> >>> and the color used to mark the extent of an autocompletion expansion.
>> >>>
>> >>> On 2011-01-25 18:14, Johannes Heck wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I wonder if
>> >>>>
>> >>>> QPalette::Highlight 12 A color to indicate a selected item or the
>> >>>> current item. By default, the highlight color is Qt::darkBlue.
>> >>>> QPalette::HighlightedText 13 A text color that contrasts with
>> >>>> Highlight. By default, the highlighted text color is Qt::white.
>> >>>
>> >>> are used for the highlighting e.g. the active line in TW or text that
>> >>> was just put in by using the auto-completion (see highlight2.JPG above).
>> >>> Wouldn't the use of it produce a better contrast, depending on the current
>> >>> OS color theme (w/o Win Xp-Vista and OS X)?
>> >>>
>> >>> The issue is a different one. If you normally select text (e.g. with
>> >>> the mouse), the current color theme should be respected. In autocompletion,
>> >>> this is no normal selection (e.g., if you hit "Del", you won't remove it),
>> >>> to which the QPalette::Highlight* items above refer. Instead, everything
>> >>> that was added as a result of the autocompletion is highlighted for
>> >>> convenience, so the user can see what has changed. If this were colored the
>> >>> same way as a normal selection, the two would be indistinguishable, which is
>> >>> not the intended behavior.
>> >>>
>> >>> I obviously do see the problem, however. Could you add this to the
>> >>> issue tracker on Google Code so we don't forget about this?
>> >>>
>> >>> HTH
>> >>> Stefan
>> >>
>> >> I just wanted to add it, but it doesn't work, very strange. After
>> >> clicking "submit", the page loads for a second, but then my text is still
>> >> there and nothing happens, no notification at all. I'll try it again
>> >> tomorrow, seems to be a google code problem.
>> >>
>> >> Johannes
>> >
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