Re: Adjusting the background window highlight color? (was: Re: Adjusting the greenish portion of the background)

• Subject: Re: Adjusting the background window highlight color? (was: Re: Adjusting the greenish portion of the background)
• From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
• Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:22:37 -0700
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On May 16, 2005, at 5:33 AM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:

Cool, that worked out very, VERY well indeed. Do you know if there is a way of adjusting the background window highlight color as well? (see rdar://3565784).

Sadly, no :(

For everyone who isn't at Apple and can't see my radar report, here is my problem.

1) highlight some text.
2) put that window in the background. Your highlight text now goes from whatever your highlight color you selected in the preference panel to a light gray.

On an LCD screen, the light gray fades into the background white, unless you have the light in the room just right, and the angle of the screen right (at least this is what happens to me). This might not seem like that big a deal until you start doing search and replace manually; THEN it gets to be painful trying to figure out what is being highlighted.

Thanks,
Cem Karan

PS, how do you find out about things like PBXPageGuideOutOfBoundsTransparency? I just tried "find . -type f - exec grep --text PBXPageGuideOutOfBoundsTransparency {} \;" across everything in Xcode.app, but it didn't turn it up. Where's the key?

Scott

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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:05:10 -0700
From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Adjusting the greenish portion of the background
To: "XCode Users' List" <email@hidden>
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It's a user default.

defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXPageGuideOutOfBoundsTransparency 0.02

Scott

On May 13, 2005, at 4:57 AM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:

Thanks!  But which file should I put it in and where?  I just tried
to put it in my projects .pbxuser file under the perUserDictionary
item as a number with a value of 1 (just as a tests), and it had no
effect.  I even tried restarting XCode to see if it needed to
reread the values that way, but...

Oh, and rdar://4118235

Thanks,
Cem Karan

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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:58:00 -0700
From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Adjusting the greenish portion of the background
To: "XCode Users' List" <email@hidden>
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It's actually a grey tint, specifically we blend grey with the
textEditorBackground color you specify. As far as modifying that you
can try setting PBXPageGuideOutOfBoundsTransparency to a value
between 0 and 1 (I think, the current default value is 0.02).

Beware, changing this value is totally unsupported :)

If you want to get this default exposed in the text editor prefs I'd
file a bug.

Scott

On May 12, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:

I just noticed that if you have 'Show page guide' turned on under
the Text Editing preferences, the portion of thw window's
background that is to the right of the guide is tinted slightly
green.  That is a good solution one of my GUI problems, but
unfortunately for me, I'm working on a laptop screen and that color
fades into the white background.  I don't see a way of adjusting
the color, and my fairly cursory read through the various plists
for XCode didn't turn up anything that looked likely (grepping for
'page', 'guide', 'color', 'background' turned up nothing).  How do
I change it?

And before eveyrone points out the 'Editor Colors' preference item
that includes a background adjustment, note that I'm not trying to
change the entire background; just the portion that is to the right
of the page guide.  I specifically want visual contrast!

Thanks,
Cem Karan

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