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The text window colours panel

The text window colours panel

Select Colours... (Options menu, Shift Ctrl C) to open the text colours panel. This panel defines the colours for normal text, selected text and the cursor. A limited additional set of colours for syntax highlighting can be set in the highlighting styles panel.

Colours can be specified for selected text window modes. Switch through the modes using the popup menu at the bottom of the text colours panel.

After selecting a text window mode, select the particular colour you want to edit through the changing... menu or by clicking the mouse in one of the preview fields at the top of the panel.

There are then several ways of changing the selected colour.

After editing all the components you wanted to change, click Apply, or OK (OK will close the panel).

The Undo button abandons the changes to the colours made since you last clicked Apply or OK or switched modes. It can be used to copy a set of colours from one editing mode to another. Defaults will revert to the built-in default colours for the selected text window mode (antique white for text modes, bordaux red for binaries, and grey for the info browser).

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Please note that for every additional colour you choose, several new colours may be allocated, because a colour may need to be displayed in a number of levels of intensity for e.g. shadow effects. The number of colours your screen can display is probably limited, therefore other applications may suffer when Edith reserves too many colours. Edith is fairly greedy as far as colours are concerned; up to 40 colour shades are allocated with the supplied default configuration. It may help to start other colour-hungry applications before starting the Edith pro server.

Edith will hardly ever suffer from the behaviour of other applications, because on 8-bit (PseudoColor) screens, Edith's colours are allocated both in the default colour map and in a private colour map. This way, Edith gets all the colours it needs, with a minimum of colourmap flashing as you change from Edith windows to those of other applications.

On displays with multiple colour maps (currently only Silicon Graphics), Edith will make use of a private colourmap only. When on a black and white display or in extreme situations, Edith will approximate unavailable colours by stippling with black and white. If you are experiencing colour differences because you are using Edith on X displays from different manufacturers (e.g. a Sun and a Silicon Graphics), then click the rgbi button to convert the rgb style colours generated by the sliders to the more or less device-independent red-green-blue-intensity notation. This button only affects one colour at a time.


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